Hi Guys,
I was wondering if I could get some assistance with programmatically uninstalling and reinstalling Viscosity, or if possible, what it is that the “helpertool” prompt actually installs, so I can replicate appropriately.
I manage an estate of macs and want to bulk update the app, and settings as I can no longer assume users will do this correctly. I am therefore doing the following:
- force an update of the application (curl command to download and hdutil to unpack and copy)
- force through our VPN config connections (visc files being pushed are tested and working as should)
- force through our license, some basic settings and update preferences (and where I believe Im falling over - privileged helper)
I use Casper to manage the macs, so use Composer to capture 2 and 3 and script 1 through a bash script)
Im currently getting mixed results when I uninstall various older versions ranging from 1.6 > 1.7.1 and push the new app, settings and helpertool.
I’ll either get the installer helper prompt (even though Ive captured the helper file inside /Library/PriviledgedHelpers, checked its perms and tested) and this check will crash rendering Viscosity useless and have to reinstall manually.
If it does install, connecting to the pushed VPN entries causes a perpetual connect/reconnect or just doesn’t connect stating that “Your VPN connection has been disconnected” even though it never connected. Ive had limited success with removing the viscosity/Openvpn1/2 entries from keychain, but this isn’t feasible if fixing en mass.
Attached is the script Im using which makes use of instructions for uninstalling from here:
http://www.sparklabs.com/support/kb/article/uninstalling-viscosity-mac/
#!/bin/bash
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# MODIFIABLE
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VERSION=$4
DMG_NAME="Viscosity.dmg"
APPNAME="Viscosity.app"
VIS_LINK="https://www.sparklabs.com/downloads/${DMG_NAME}"
FOLDER="viscosity"
APP_PATH="/Applications/$APPNAME"
##############################
# Constants to compute
##############################
if [ -d $APP_PATH ]
then
osascript -e 'tell application “Viscosity” to disconnectall'
sleep 2
sudo pkill -3 Viscosity
launchctl unload "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sparklabs.ViscosityHelper.plist"
rm "/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.sparklabs.ViscosityHelper"
rm "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.sparklabs.ViscosityHelper.plist"
rm -R "/Library/Application Support/Viscosity"
echo "$APP_PATH present - deleting"
rm -rf $APP_PATH
defaults delete com.viscosityvpn.Viscosity
fi
mkdir /private/tmp/"$FOLDER"
cd /private/tmp/"$FOLDER"
curl -L -O "$VIS_LINK"
hdiutil mount -nobrowse "${DMG_NAME}"
cp -R "/Volumes/Viscosity/${APPNAME}" /Applications
hdiutil unmount "/Volumes/Viscosity"
rm -R /private/tmp/"$FOLDER"
Cheers
