@Rudi -- I'll have to bow out at this point. I'm not an expert on the
things that can go wrong with a J installation -- there's other people on
this list who are. But they'll want to know the following...

After you've got (i.6) to work, enter:
   JVERSION
and post the result.

I suppose you've done the obvious thing like checking you really do have
write access to the installation folder? Cos jconsole.app thinks you
haven't. You'll see its path at the bottom of the result of JVERSION. On my
machine it's

/Applications/j64-801

 What I'd do then is look verrrrry carefully at the "Get Info" window of
both /Applications/j64-801 and its parent, /Applications -- and of sample
files in those folders.

Then cast a beady eye at System Preferences > Security & Privacy (also
Parental Controls, Network, Sharing...). Try using TextEdit to save a test
file into /Applications . I can do it -- can you? Once having saved it, try
editing it. Try it again, using "cat" and "nano" under Unix in the Terminal
app. Look at its "Get Info" --especially Sharing & Permissions. Is the
"Locked" checkbox checked? Use Terminal to look at the Unix permissions of
sample files in /Applications and /Applications/j64-801.

Have you got a virus checker or other gatekeeper which might be guarding
write access to /Applications ? There's just so many things on the Mac
nowadays that can stop J's Package Manager from updating files in a
sensitive folder like /Applications. Mavericks is a new o/s, and in my long
experience one of the last things o/s developers seem to get right is the
Permissions structure and its inheritances.


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Rudi Mann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ian,
>
> thanks for the answer. I tried to do the same, but got different results:
>
> > 1. I downloaded and unzipped: j801a_mac64.zip
> >   This gave me a folder: j64-801 in my Downloads folder -which I moved to
> > Applications.
> > Opened jcon801.app --after getting past the "unregistered developer"
> > gatekeeper :-\
> > Entered: i.6
> > --it worked ok.
>
> Here too.
>
> > Before trying *anything* else, entered: install'all'
> > --that worked too.
>
> Not here; this is what I got:
>
> Last login: Fri Jan 17 08:46:22 on console
> admins-MacBook-Pro:~ admin$ /Applications/j64-801/bin/jconsole ; exit;
>    i.6
> 0 1 2 3 4 5
>    install 'all'
> Unable to run Package Manager, as you do not have access to the
> installation folder.
>
> What now?
>
> Rudi
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