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    Renewing SPSS for Mac License Silently Update

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    SPSS MacOS

    I previously wrote about a script to license SPSS for Mac silently . In version 25 of SPSS Statistics, the path to the bundled Java has changed. It now no longer has the version of the JRE in the path. As a result the script now looks like this :

    #!/bin/bash -x
 
VERSION=25
AUTHCODE=<redacted>
 
APPPATH="/Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/$VERSION/SPSSStatistics.app/"
cd "$APPPATH/Contents/bin"
 
"$APPPATH/Contents/JRE/bin/java" -jar "$APPPATH/Contents/bin/licenseactivator.jar" SILENTMODE CODES=$AUTHCODE

    If SPSS keeps a consistent path to the bundled Java, it will make it a little bit easier to update the script for each new version of SPSS Statistics.