Resolving The Problem

Attached is a shell script for cleaning up SPSS Statistics installs (versions 19.0 through Current). To completely remove your installed version of the SPSS Statistics software, do the following:

1. Drag the Statistics <Version> folder from its installed location to the Trash, then empty the Trash.
2. Save the attached shell script and unzip it to a temporary location ( like "~/Downloads")
3. Open the Terminal.app (Finder -> Go -> Utilities -> Terminal)
4. Change the active directory to where you downloaded and extracted the shell script
$ cd ~/Downloads
5. Make sure the shell script has execute permission set:
$ chmod +x clean_script.sh
6. Know what your user ID is by typing the 'whoami' command:
$ whoami
Fred

In the example, the user ID is 'Fred'. Edit the shell script with the default 'nano' command-line text
editor. If you use the TextEdit.app GUI text editor, be sure to save the result a plain text.  This script does not work as Rich Text.

Alter the line USERID= to:

USERID=Fred

7. Run the shell script:
$ sudo ./clean_script.sh