Joey, Thanks. Excellent "catch". That extra j was the problem. I have attempted to alter the installation docs at
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J804 . and http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Installation/J803. On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > I had put off downloading the j804 beta, but did that just now. Once the > download finished, I clicked on the zip file that produced a folder > "j64-804" - I dragged that folder to /Applications (I like to have j > available from any user login).I put my Unixy stuff in /usr/local/bin - but > I see that you have that and /usr/bin in your $PATH, so noproblems. > > I run terminal on my desktop all the time, so here is a clip from terminal > after the above steps. > > iMi7:~ jkt$ > iMi7:~ jkt$ ls -l /Applications/j64-804 > total 16 > drwxr-xr-x@ 23 jkt staff 782 Jun 28 11:26 addons > drwxr-x---@ 12 jkt staff 408 Jun 28 11:08 bin > drwxr-xr-x@ 3 jkt staff 102 Jun 19 21:34 jbrk.app > drwxr-xr-x@ 3 jkt staff 102 Jun 19 21:34 jcon.app > drwxr-xr-x@ 3 jkt staff 102 Jun 19 21:34 jhs.app > drwxr-xr-x@ 3 jkt staff 102 Jun 19 21:34 jqt.app > -rw-r--r--@ 1 jkt staff 329 Jun 19 21:34 readme.txt > drwxr-xr-x@ 6 jkt staff 204 Jun 19 21:34 system > drwxr-x---@ 3 jkt staff 102 Jun 19 21:34 tools > -rwxr-xr-x@ 1 jkt staff 153 Jun 19 21:34 updatejqt.sh > iMi7:~ jkt$ echo $PATH > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin > iMi7:~ jkt$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/jb > lrwxr-xr-x 1 jkt admin 34 Jun 28 11:06 /usr/local/bin/jb -> > /Applications/j64-804/bin/jconsole > iMi7:~ jkt$ jb > > JVERSION > Engine: j803/2014-10-19-11:11:11 > Library: 8.04.05 > Platform: Darwin 64 > Installer: J804 install > InstallPath: /applications/j64-804 > > I installed all the addons and everything seems to work as expected > (including plot producing a very nice PDF displayed by preview). > > As I was typing this message, I noticed that your frustration might be > caused by a typo. You say you made a symbolic link with - > > ln -s ~/j64-j804/bin/jconsole jc > > but you may have meant ~/j64-804/bin/jconsole (that extra j would cause > problems...) hope this helps. > > - joey > > > > -- (B=) <-----my sig Brian Schott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
