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"--Automatic" install switch for free version of Sophos AV for Linux?

Jason Kinnard

Hello there,

 

I wanted to know if there was some way of getting past through the intial install.sh script using the --automatic switch to install the Free version of Sophos and not the Supported version. For example:

 

./install.sh --automatic --acceptlicense /opt/sophos-av

 

Installs everything without error on Debian 8, but only the supported version. Is there either an undocumented CLI switch or a post-install configuration change I can make so that the Sophos I install "automatically" can auto-update out of the box just like the manually-installed Free version?

 

Savconfig of manually install free version:

 

savconfg of automatically-installed Supported version (supported is selected b/c it's the default switch!)

 

 

Thanks in advance!



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    Hello Jason Kinnard,

    your --automatic "supported" example doesn't have updating configured as far as I can see.
    If I understand correctly you want a no-questions-asked install of the free version. Don't have a Linux at hand but if the main installer takes the same options as mkinstpkg then it should be --sophos and --update-type=f (please see also How to package with mkinstpkg.

    Christian

  • 0 in reply to QC

    Thanks for the quick response Christian.

    As far as I can tell --automatic is not possible in installing the Free version that updates automatically from Sophos.

    Seems that mkinstpkg is the way to go as you suggest, unfortunately that requires that I have a CID, which I do not. So I will actually be otherwise trying to automate other elements of this install as much as possible. Again, thanks for your response.

     

    Jason

  • 0 in reply to Jason Kinnard

    Hello Jason,

    you did try running install.sh with --automatic and the --sophos and --update-type=f switches?

    mkinstpkg [...] requires that I have a CID
    AFAIK - no. But you have to run mkinstpkg --sophos in order to get prompted to select free or supported instead of the CID prompt. Please note that free requires internet access as it requests the free credentials at this point.

    Christian   

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