As far as I recall, that only step that requires sudo, i.e. moving the library to /usr/lib, can be eliminated if the startup scripts (jw, etc.) made use of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH/DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.
.dmg is typically not an installation package, but a simple self-mountable archive, which has a drag and drop installable bundle, without requirement for any standard application folder, e.g. could be /Tools or /Util. This brings a question of separation of J core stuff from user stuff, which may or may not be a good thing. --- Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Things Mac are radically (very radically) different > from 15 years ago! OS X is essentially a BSD Unix > kernel (with additions from Mach and Next) and the > very nice/stable operating system is Unix. > > OS X provides a wonderful (best I have ever used) > command line terminal program named, appropriately > enough, "Terminal" You can launch the Terminal > found in OS X /Applications/Utilities/Terminal. > > Once you have that Unix environment running, the > distributed instructions, found in install.txt, > work straight forwardly in the terminal window. > > After downloading the installation package file > (j601c_darwin_powerpc.tar.gz) You can either use > the tar command described in install.txt, or just > click on it in the GUI environment - or, as it says > in the instructions, it may well have been unpacked > automatically after downloading (depends on > preferences in the browser you are using). > > That would mean the only "required step" is the > sudo command to put the "dll" into place. > > I do think it would be nice if jsoftware built a > standard .dmg installation package for j and located > things in the normal application directory, but there > are some advantages to having uniformity between > Unix, Linux, and Darwin (OS X) - a little difficult > to decide just what is best... > > - joey > > At 08:38 +1300 2006/11/29, Fraser Jackson wrote: > >I recently tried to assist a professorial colleague install J on a > >Mac OS X and I asked another similar long term Mac user to assist. > >However the instructions left them completely baffled as to what to > >do. Neither was familiar with the instructions at the command level > >and neither had any idea what Sudo was and how to access it. They > >used a Mac because they normally never had to concern themselves > >with such things. > > > >Can anyone explain simply what to do? Its 15+ years since I knew > >anything about using a Mac. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
