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Is it possible to do an unattended install?

I'm looking to include Sophos for some basic virus scanning on an Ubuntu box. Everything works as expected when I manually walk through the installation. All of my boxes are managed using Chef so I'd prefer to use this to install Sophos without any manual intervention.

I've tried reading through all the documentation I can find but haven't come across what I'm looking for. Is this possible? If so, how?

Cheers,

Nathan

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0 QC over 8 years ago

Hello Nathan,

I'm not familiar with Chef, but - did you come across mkinstpkg?

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0 NathanJones over 8 years ago in reply to QC

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the response. Essentially there is nothing special about what I'm doing with Chef, I just need to be able to run the install script without having to interactively configure it.

I hadn't come across mkinstpkg before thanks. I tried it out, and it seemed to be straight forward, but I can't configure it to automatically update from the internet, it just skips that question and asks where the files are available from locally. Any ideas?

Nathan
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0 NathanJones over 8 years ago in reply to QC

Hi Christian,

Thanks for the response. Essentially there is nothing special about what I'm doing with Chef, I just need to be able to run the install script without having to interactively configure it.

I hadn't come across mkinstpkg before thanks. I tried it out, and it seemed to be straight forward, but I can't configure it to automatically update from the internet, it just skips that question and asks where the files are available from locally. Any ideas?

Nathan
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0 QC over 8 years ago in reply to NathanJones

Hello Nathan,

update from the internet
you mean from Sophos? If so, you have to call mkinstpkg with the --sophos flag - please see chapter 11 Appendix in the Startup Guide (there's also a recent thread on mkinstpkg in the Endpoint forum).

Christian
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0 NathanJones over 8 years ago in reply to QC

That looks promising thanks mate. When I get a chance I'll give it a try.

Cheers,

Nathan
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+1 DouglasLeeder over 7 years ago in reply to NathanJones

Hi Nathan,

You can also script the main installer - all its options can be specified from the command-line, and the --automatic option forces the installer to not ask any questions.

Thanks,

Douglas.
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0 mjagyo over 6 years ago in reply to DouglasLeeder

Hi Douglas,

I'm trying to do --automatic command but it throws an error it says.

You must specify an installation directory on the command line for automatic installations.

Installation aborted.

Automatic installation and no install directory specified.

The command looks like this:

./install.sh --SavWebUsername=username --SavWebPassword=password --acceptlicence --automatic

The image above are the list of the commands that is available.

Thanks,

Mark Jagyo
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0 DouglasLeeder over 6 years ago in reply to mjagyo

Hi Mark,

Look at the "Usage:" line, which shows how to specify the installation directory.

Also SavWebUsername and SavWebPassword don't do anything, since we've removed the WebUI.
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0 mjagyo over 6 years ago in reply to DouglasLeeder

Hi Douglas,

Thats just embarrassing to miss that one.

Thank you so much :)
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