Murray Thanks for the bug report and detailed instructions. We will fix as advised.
Chris On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>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 [email protected] > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
