[Bf-committers] osx install example 3

Ton Roosendaal bf-committers@blender.org
Wed, 28 May 2003 17:57:48 +0200


Hi,

Argh! There's a postinstall and postupgrade script... and I forgot to  
have them both included.
This one should work:

>> http://download.blender.org/demo/test/blender-2.27-OSX.dmg

Anyhoo, the whole creation process is cumbersome, too much clicking and  
stuff. I will look at a shell script to do the magic.

-Ton-


On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 17:26 Europe/Amsterdam, Douglas Bischoff  
wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
>
>> update:
>> http://download.blender.org/demo/test/blender-2.27-OSX.dmg
>>
>> -> doesn't copy the resources dir to /Applications anymore (it  
>> shouldn't copy such a dir at all, only a .blender directory in $HOME
>> -> updated package name for a more compatible release one
>
> Hm. I don't have a .blender directory in $HOME. Did some searching and  
> didn't find a .blender directory anywhere on my hard drives. I don't  
> get a splash screen when starting Blender, which might be a symptom of  
> the no .blender problem. The .blend directory DID appear in that  
> resources directory, but it appears that it didn't copy as it was  
> supposed to...?
>
> One possible explanation: I, like many old-school Mac users, didn't  
> give a second thought to naming my hard drives with spaces in them...  
> I've found that this causes problems on a few programs that expect a  
> nice, clean path with no spaces in the names. Could this be the  
> problem?
>
>>> The only oddity is that the blender.app is non-capitalized, whereas  
>>> the application itself is Capitalized as I'd expect. Can you change  
>>> the blender.app to Blender.app?
>>
>> I changed it in the makefile. New versions will be Blender.app now.
>
> I assume you mean "new after this one" since the install I just did  
> from blender-2.27-OSX.dmg was still lower case.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> -Bischofftep
>
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