Installing SPSS for Ubuntu

Question

I'm stuck with my statistics duties because all alternatives to spss (lab/pspp/...) for Ubuntu are useless.. I need please any version if spss for Ubuntu 20.04

Answer 1

SPSS Installation Instructions on Ubuntu

1. Download SPSS Statistics.

2. Extract the contents of the downloaded file.

3. Change to the directory where you extracted the files.

4. Make sure the permissions for setup.bin are set to execute.

5. At the command prompt, type: sudo ./setup.bin

6. Follow the instructions that appear in the installation program.

Open SPSS Statistics

1. Browse to the /opt/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/23/bin directory (23 is the SPSS version).

2. Run the stats file.

Create a desktop shortcut and add SPSS to the apps menu

Create ~/.local/share/applications/SPSS.desktop and add these lines to the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=SPSS
Exec= /opt/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/23/bin/stats
Icon=SPSS

Download any SPSS icon, rename it to SPSS, and add it to ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps, repeat this for /32x32/apps, etc. Log out and log in, you will see the SPSS icon in the apps menu.

Copy or create a link for ~/.local/share/applications/SPSS.desktop to ~/Desktop, right-click on ~/Desktop/SPSS.desktop, and allow launching.

SPSS Linux Installation Instructions (Authorized User License)