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Sophos Virus protection is preventing install of Transformers which are supplied with FME which are not installed by default. Being detected as suspicious behaviour .

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Within Sophos can exclude event id but as file locations for each transformer is different would have to keep adding them. Command used to install like below. Have excluded paths with no success. Is it possible to install transformers from command line rather than within FME application. Tried to use below command but file not found. Manual install may get round Sophos blocking . Thanks in advance for any advice supplied.

 

pip install --force-reinstall --no-deps --no-index --find-links C:\\Users\\test\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\22800-win64\\PackageFiles\\safe.s3connector\\python --target C:\\Users\\test\\AppData\\Roaming\\Safe Software\\FME\\Packages\\22800-win64\\python\\safe.s3connector --upgrade --no-compile fme-amazons3'

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  • david_rCelebrity
  • June 16, 2023

If it's an FME package file with the .fpkg extension, you can download the file locally and then install it from the command line like in this example:

fme.exe package install "c:\downloads\safe.s3connector-2.1.0.fpkg"

If it's a regular transformer with the .fmx extension, you can download and copy the file into the user's transformer directory, e.g.

C:\Users\<username>\Documents\FME\Transformers

It should then be automatically detected at startup. It's also possible to copy the .fmx file into <FME_HOME>\transformers for an installation-wide deployment, but I would discourage it when possible, as it tends to mask that it's a "second class" transformer and you'll lose the possibility to modify the transformer.

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  • hlove2023
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  • June 16, 2023

@david_r​ 

David, Thanks for you help. Was able to install using your supplied method without Sophos blocking. Could then use package.

 

 

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