Combining Installer Packages?

[IMcD23]

Hello all,

I am working on some Macs and am going to be installing Microsoft Office 2008 on them, including 12.2.0 and 12.2.5 updates and Entourage Web Services Edition. I would like to somehow automate the install by combining the packages into one or something like that. Any way to do that?

Thanks

 

[calderone]

Write a shell script. Have it install the base Office package then the updates. You won't even have to click through the prompts.

In Terminal type

man installer

To see what you can do. You will have to research shell scripts as well. The most basic way to do it is:

installer -pkg /path/to/package.pkg/.mpkg -target /

 

[IMcD23]

That sounds simple enough. I did some more research and found that Apple includes an app in the Developer Tools that is called Package Maker. I used that and was able to just drag the packages into that and make a new package that is customizable. I havent tried installing it yet, but that sounds a little better than the command line way.