In the Options section, check the box for Require admin password for installation.ĥ. In the Post-Installation Behavior section, set On Success: to Do Nothing To accomplish this, I’m choosing the following options in the Settings section: In the case of my project, I want to install with root privileges and not require a logout, restart or shutdown. In this example, I’m not changing any of the options from what is set by default.Ĥ.
The information you need is in Chapter 4 – Configuring a project.) You’ll want to make sure that the your information is correctly set here (if you don’t know what to put in, check the Help menu for the Packages User Guide. Once the Packages project opens, click on the Project tab. In this case, I’m naming the project Sophos Anti-Virus 9.0.7ģ. Set up a new Packages project and select Raw Package.Ģ. Once I had this information and understood what was going on, here’s how I repackaged Sophos Anti-Virus Home Edition 9.x so that it could be deployed via an installer package.ġ. With these commands, it’s possible to add the Sophos install application to an installer package and run the needed command(s) as a postinstall script. Library/Application\ Support/Sophos/he/Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallationDeployer -remove path/to/Sophos\ Anti-Virus\ Home\ Edition.app/Contents/MacOS/InstallationDeployer -install Here’s how to install and uninstall Sophos 9.x using the free Sophos Home Edition installer application: Sophos’ application can be run from the command line using the InstallationDeployer tool, which includes both install and remove switches. After doing some research and reading a very helpful thread on JAMF Nation, it looks like it is possible to repackage Sophos 9.x for deployment. This switch away from using installer packages was a problem for Mac admins who wanted to deploy Sophos 9.x, but did not have Sophos’ enterprise console. This extended to the point of naming the actual application as Installer, which is the same name as Apple’s Installer. For their customers using Sophos Enterprise Console, Sophos will still provide a installer metapackage, but all other customers now need to use the application to install Sophos Anti-Virus 9.x on Macs.Ĭuriously, Sophos went to some lengths to make their install application look like a standard installer package. With the release of Sophos Anti-Virus 9.x though, Sophos changed how their antivirus solution for Macs was installed by switching to using an application to install it. For the past few major releases, Sophos used a standard installer package to install both their free and paid antivirus solution.
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