The j805 installation instructions for Mac OS X / macOS as written are defective for macOS Sierra (10.12.2).as written.
1. I followed Download link at www.jsoftware.com <http://www.jsoftware.com/> , then Installation link on that page, and finally, in “Installation” section, clicked the All-in-One link, which landed me at http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/All-in-One <http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/All-in-One>. There I downloaded the .dmg form link “Installer for 64-vit OS X. 2. I opened the downloaded .dmg and moved the j64-805 folder to my /Aoplications folder. 3. In Finder, I navigated to that folde and right-clicked sierra-fix.command to open, i.e,. execute, that command. Somewhat to my surprise, the automatically-opened Terminal window showed the following: [murray:~] $/Applications/j64-805/sierra-fix.command ; exit; /Applications/j64-805/sierra-fix.command: line 4: cd: /Users/murray/j64-805: No such file or directory xattr: No such file: jbrk.app xattr: No such file: jcon.app xattr: No such file: jqt.app xattr: No such file: bin/jbrk.command xattr: No such file: bin/jqt.command xattr: No such file: bin/jconsole xattr: No such file: bin/jqt logout Saving session... ...copying shared history... ...saving history...truncating history files... ...completed. [Process completed] Evidently sierra-fix.command is expecting the j64-805 install folder to be in my own user folder — which is not where I would put _any_ app! Applications should to into /Applications! At this point, needless to say, double-clicking jqt.app or jcon.app did nothing THE FIX: (a) edit sierra-fix.command so as to change its 4th line to point to the actual installation folder, in my case, change it to: cd /Applications/j64-805 (b) right-click to run that edited sierra-fix.command Now double-clicking jqt.app _does_ work.(and so does jcon.app). HOWEVER, jhs.app still does NOT work! (even with the usual right-click to tell macOS it’s OK to open). to get jhs.app to work,I tried the following additional steps: (c) (i) Navigate to j64-805/bin, right-click jhs.command, and tell macOS it’s OK to open it. This does start the jhs server. But after closing the client and server, still jhs.app does not work. (ii) Did a “Show Package Contents” then right-clicked to open jhs.app > Contents > MacOS > apprun. That does start the jhs server. But still, after closing server & client, jhs.app does not work. HOWEVER, if I (iii) navigate to j64-805 and from Terminal run command xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine jhs.app from there, then jhs.app does now work. CONCLUSION: Installation instructions for macOS need to be amended to say to edit sierra-fix.command in order to: (A) Edit the target of the cd command so it points to the actual installation folder; and (B) Add the following lines to the script: xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine jhs.app xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine bin/jhs.command I would hope that jsoftware could take care of adding those two lines, which (only for some users) would leave the task of straightening out the cd command’s target. > On, 19 Dec 2016 10:24:19 -0500, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com > <mailto:eric.b.iver...@gmail.com>>wrote: > > Installing J805 is strongly recommended for all users. > > For some previous releases there were various reasons why some users would > hold of on moving to a new release. This is not the case for this release. > > Everyone should move to 805 ASAP. It is in your interest and the > communities interest. > > Install instructions have been significantly reworked. Taking time to > follow them carefully and providing feedback will help clean things up so > new users will have a smoother ride. > > See www.jsoftware.com <http://www.jsoftware.com/> and click Download. —— Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
