For the cd command in sierra-fix.command, I would say that cd $(dirname $0)
would be better, since it would allow installation in any directory. I'm not a bash pro however, so someone might have to confirm that this works as intended. Louis > On 20 Dec 2016, at 18:07, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > > I should report that I forgot to run sierra-fix.command ... and I should add > to my prior "all looks good" report that I haven't tried to run jhs or Jqt. > > I do 99%+ of my work from jconsole, so I simply corrected my symbolic links, > added my own profilex.ijs, used pacman to install all addons, and ran some > simplistic tests. > > Another nicety for Mac users would be to put an alias for /Applications right > in the .dmg file so that the installer can just drag the J folder to > /Applications in the same window. This is a pretty standard thing in most > OS10 installations. It would also be appropriate to include a README.txt > etc. file right in the .dmg - that might have reminded me that there were > some issues like running sierra-fix.command to deal with. > > I'll try to do some more testing. Thanks for the good start! > > - joey > >> On 2016Dec 20, at 08:10, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
