I've used Eclipse on Mac and install has always been to just extract archive and run just as you can do on Windows.
Occationally you'll have a bad download, and then what you describe occures. KEB On Jul 16, 7:23 pm, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I just downloaded the latest Eclipse and the Archive Utility had no > trouble expanding it into my Downloads folder, so I've failed to replicate > the problem. > I'd first try the download again. If AU fails to open it again, go into the > terminal and try unzip > ( > unzip /path/to/eclipse-jee-indigo-macosx-cocoa-x86_64.tar.gz) > > where /path/to is probably something like > > /Users/yourusername/Desktop or /Users/yourusername/Downloads > > You might also try gunzip, which is the gnu utility. I'm not sure what the > differences are, but they seem to be distinct utilities for the same purpose > - perhaps one will be better at coping with your particular situation than > the other. > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Vince O'Sullivan > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Sorry the information was a little sparse (and accompanied by my > > general frustration with Unix). Normally, I would simply have copied > > and pasted the text of the error message into the email but I can't > > seem to copy the text directly; so here it is (copied manually): > > Archive Utility - Unable to unarchive "eclipse-jee-indigo-macosx-cocoa- > > x86_64.tar.gz" into "Desktop". (Error 1 - Operation not permitted.) > > > Thx. > > > On Jul 15, 5:28 pm, Jon Kiparsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Vince - can you give a little more information about what's going wrong? > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "The Java Posse" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
