Script to deploy Archicad 17 on Mac with ARD

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

Perhaps someone is interested by a script to deploy Archicad and his patches on many mac workstations with Apple Remote Desktop.
You must be root to run it.

You can find here my script :

First, you must have a sharepoint to copy your Archicad package (made with the installation program) and all the patches (if not cumulative).
My sharepoint is "ACHotFix" hosted on a mac server.

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# Create a mount point on the workstation
mkdir /Volumes/Install
# Create a temporary directory Temp on first level
mkdir /Temp

# Mount the sharepoint hosted by a mac server
mount_smbfs //login:password@name_of_server/ACHotFix /Volumes/Install/

# Copy all files necessary to install in the Temp directory on first level
cp -r /Volumes/Install/AC17-FRA-3002.app /Temp/
cp -r /Volumes/Install/AC17-4005-HOTFIX2-MAC.app /Temp/
cp -r /Volumes/Install/AC17-4008-HOTFIX3-MAC.app /Temp/

# Install Archicad 17 and the patches
sudo /Temp/AC17-FRA-3002.app/Contents/ArchiCAD\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/ArchiCAD\ Installer -silent
sudo /Temp/AC17-4005-HOTFIX2-MAC.app/Contents/MacOS/AC17-4005-HOTFIX2-MAC -silent
sudo /Temp/AC17-4008-HOTFIX3-MAC.app/Contents/MacOS/AC17-4008-HOTFIX3-MAC -silent

# Delete all temporary files
rm -r /Temp

# unmount the mount point
umount /Volumes/Install
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Have fun
Kind regards

[Anonymous]

Hi Patrick,

Thanks for that. These are really useful since Graphisoft's own OS X ARD deployment document seems to be totally out of date.

I've made my own, which I think is a bit easier to use since you can just feed it a URL to the hot fix image:
https://gist.github.com/filipp/8975071

[Anonymous]

These are beautiful. Thank you both!