#11755: Allow running Sage.app by someone other than it was installed by
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Reporter: iandrus | Owner: iandrus
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: user interface | Keywords: mac app
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by jhpalmieri):
Replying to [comment:1 leif]:
> It's not immediately clear to me why an ordinary user would have to move
Sage though, just to run the application. (But I don't use apples.)
If an ordinary user moves Sage, then presumably they have write
permissions to the new SAGE_ROOT/local/lib, so there won't be any
problems, will there?
This all happens in the script `sage-location`, right? If Sage detects
that its location has moved, then it tries to update various library and
pkg-config files. If the user doesn't have permission to do this, then we
could just print a warning ("Have your sysadmin do ..." and/or "Try
copying the Sage installation to ...") and either bail out or keep going
and hope for the best.
In fact, I posted a patch doing some of this (it doesn't print the
warning) at #5155. Perhaps we should try to fix this issue here and deal
with the other issues from #5155 there.
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