voiceover will tell you. It'll say "app name.pkg for install package or appname.dmg for disk image. I have used both before. They both work fully with voiceover.
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 11, 2014, at 4:05 PM, "Lee Jones" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear David I did command O which seemed to open the disc image but then > tried command O again to see if it was an installer it asked me if I wanted > to open it and I said yes but then nothing happened it said chrome has no > windows and it wouldn’t react to any keystrokes. When you say open the > installer and run it, is opening it running it,or is there a separate > keystroke to run the software? Then I tried opening the disk image and > copying a thing called google chrome and it wouldn’t let me it just made a > noise. I found something called google application and tried copying that > but it wouldn’t let me do that either, it seemed to be a text element. How > do you know whether it is an installer or an application? > > Many Thanks Lee > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Taylor > Sent: 11 January 2014 19:55 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Installing Google Chrome on Mavericks > > Hi, press command-o to open the disk image. I can’t remember if it’s an > installer or an app inside, if an app, copy that to your apps folder, if an > installer, hit command-o again and run it. Then close the disk image, eject > it and delete it. Many apps are packaged inside disk images rather than sent > just as .app files. > > Cheers > Dave > > On 11 Jan 2014, at 07:19 pm, Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dear List I downloaded chrome for mac and copied the disk image into the > applications folder as previously advised. It is there in the applications > folder with all the other aps but it is identified as a disk image, while all > the others around it are identified as applications. It is not available in > Launchpad , and pressing enter on it in the applications list doesn’t work. > Any Advice would be gratefully received. > > Kind Regards, Lee > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
