[phenixbb] point-n-click installer is bjorking OS X Dock

Nathaniel Echols nechols at lbl.gov
Wed Sep 26 16:47:26 PDT 2012


Oh dear, I think this may have been a problem with my shell script,
not Apple's tool.  Give the next nightly build a try (1168 or newer,
hopefully available tomorrow) *without* removing the 1160 folder
first, and let me know if that fixes the problem.

-Nat

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Nathaniel Echols <nechols at lbl.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Scott Classen <sclassen at lbl.gov> wrote:
>> So I removed the 2 versions of Phenix residing in /Applications
>>
>> but I still have a few old versions in /usr/local
>
> These don't matter, since they're based on pure Unix and ignorant of
> the high-level installation framework (and vice-versa).
>
>> I then ran the 1.8.1-1160 point-n-click installer.
>>
>> and it seems that everything is OK. The dock is working and I can command+tab between open Applications.
>>
>> So something about the existing /Applications/PHENIX-**** directories is causing an installer problem.
>
> Not the directories as such, but Apple's awfully buggy packagemaker
> tool and/or the installer app itself, which is trying to do some sort
> of cleanup.  I'll look into it.
>
> -Nat


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