IBM officially supports RHEL and SLES, but Ubuntu (or Debian) is the darling of the data science world. Does it work? Yes. Is it supported? No.
To get SPSS running on Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04: ibm spss linux work
SPSS on Linux requires legacy X11 libraries even for headless operation. IBM officially supports RHEL and SLES, but Ubuntu
sudo dnf install libX11 libXext libXtst libXrender libgcc libstdc++ compat-libstdc++-296
/opt/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/29/bin/spss --version
Automate daily reports:
#!/bin/bash
# daily_spss_job.sh
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
cd /opt/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/29/bin/
./spss -b "/scripts/daily_report.sps" \
--arg raw_data="/data/$DATE_sales.csv" \
--arg out_dir="/reports/$DATE/"
Use --arg to pass dynamic parameters to SPSS syntax via EVAL(). Exploratory analysis