Hi all,

I'm trying to license IBM SPSS 23 for Mac (on Big Sur).

I've been able to install fine but I keep getting an error when I try to run the license wizard using the following commands:

cd /Applications/IBM/SPSS/Statistics/23/SPSSStatistics.app/Contents/bin

ls -l licenseactivator

sudo chown root:admin licenseactivator

sudo chmod 775 licenseactivator

ls -l licenseactivator

./licenseactivator myAuthCodeHere

The error I get is this:

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "./echoid": error=86, Bad CPU type in executable

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -4

Any idea what I'm doing wrong? I'm just an AdoptJDK version of Java 8, and can't seem to get past this error.

Support Member​ SPSS version 23 will not work on Big Sur, the recommended SPSS version is 27.0.1.

Please see here https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-are-supported-apple-macintosh-operating-system-versions-ibm-spss-statistics