Oh! that's what's going on. I have a mac-mini running the latest OS
(10.12.2) and I got the same junk from sierra-fix command. I ended up
defining executable files with contents like:
/Applications/j64-805/bin/jqt.command &
/Applications/j64-805/bin/jconsole
/Applications/j64-805/bin/jhs.command
as the only way I could get jqt,jconsole ans jhs to run. I have not been
able to get the J icons to work :-( I guess I should erase this all and
try a re-install?
My real problem now is getting j64-805 to work on my new laptop: a Dell
XPS 13 with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installed. Previous to the latest stable
805 release I could at least start jqt with j64-805/bin/jqt, but now
can only get jconsole to run and jqt gives messages like "libjqt.so:
libQt5WebSockets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory." I'll write more details later -- this is such a sweet
machine and I want to get jqt running properly on it!
Patrick
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Murray Eisenberg 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
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