Jeshua, I’ve changed the installer for GRASS 7 so that it now installs directly into the Applications folder instead of a GRASS folder in Applications. This seems to have solved the permissions problem for now.
Michael ____________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science Arizona State University voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> wrote: > > Jeshua, > > It turns out that Cairo is the offending framework. I’ve added a note that > you should install this AFTER GDAL and FreeType. > > I have confirmed the permissions problem issue. I wonder when it first > cropped up? Anyway, I’m talking with William about a way to solve it so first > time users don’t have to change permissions before they can use GRASS. > > Currently, one easy workaround is to create a folder named GRASS inside > Applications BEFORE installing GRASS for the first time. However, if you get > a locked folder, you just need to go into get info (command I) and change > them, but it is a pain. Once the folder is accessible, subsequent GRASS > installs don’t affect it. > > Thanks for reporting these issues. > > Michael > ______________________________ > C. Michael Barton > Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity > Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change > Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science > Arizona State University > Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 > USA > > voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) > fax: 480-965-7671(SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) > www: http://csdc.asu.edu, http://shesc.asu.edu > http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton > >> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:28 PM, Jeshua Lacock <jes...@3dtopo.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Michael Barton <michael.bar...@asu.edu> wrote: >>> >>> To help me understand, I have a couple of questions below. >>> >>>>> As for the other issues, I'll respond >>>>> >>>>> 1. There IS a link to the Kyngchaos frameworks page in the menu on the >>>>> right side that shows up on every page. On that frameworks page, it is >>>>> clearly stated that PROJ and UnixImageIO are a part of the GDAL Complete >>>>> package >>>>> >>>>> 2. AFAIK, the order of installing the main frameworks packages makes no >>>>> difference. The ones for which order matters are included in GDAL >>>>> Complete. If I am wrong here, please let me know and I will put a note on >>>>> the site. >>>> >>>> On the main download page it does not state anything about installation >>>> order. I did not install GDAL first. Then I got several other errors. If >>>> it happened to me, I can only assume it will happen to others. >>> >>> Do you mean you had problems because you installed GRASS before the >>> frameworks or because you installed other frameworks before GDAL Complete? >> >> The latter. I installed GRASS last. >> >>>> 3. No one has ever reported this permissions issue so far. I don't know >>>> what is causing it in this case (unless it is new for 7.0 stable). AFAIK, >>>> the only permissions issue is the need to have a writeable director called >>>> "bin" inside the GRASS folder if you are installing extensions. This is a >>>> weird quirk of the extensions build system on the Mac. If there is a new >>>> permissions issue for 7.0 stable, it needs to be reported. But I have >>>> built it in exactly the same way as I've built all other builds recently. >>>> >>>> It has actually happened with the betas for me I just neglected to report >>>> it. As it is, the package leaves a folder that the user will not have >>>> permission to access. This should not be a difficult thing to reproduce or >>>> fix. I would suspect that the folder is owned by root because root >>>> permissions are required to install, and you likely just need to clean up >>>> the permissions as I suggested. >>> >>> It does not require root access to install, just administrator access. >> >> Sorry for the oversimplification; thats what I meant. >> >>> Which is the folder lacking permissions? /Applications/GRASS? >> >> Correct, here are the installed permissions: >> >> drwx------ 3 503 wheel 102 Feb 22 14:09 GRASS >> >>> Is this perhaps a function of the new "feature" in OSX that puts roadblocks >>> for running things not downloaded from the app store? >> >> No, I don’t get a security warning. That folder just needs permissions set >> to 755 or similar at the end of the install… >> >> Sorry for not mentioning sooner. >> >> >> Best, >> >> Jeshua Lacock >> Founder/Engineer >> 3DTOPO Incorporated >> <http://3DTOPO.com> >> Phone: 208.462.4171 >> > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
