#64 Install Error on Rel 20130318

[Robert]

Hi. I am a Mac user OSX 10.8.3. I am real excited that this is being actively developed again. I encountered an error trying to install the program on two different Macs. It worked fine on a windows install but not on my Macs. See attachments for the error detail. Kindest regards. Robert. PS. If you need me to test for Mac, feel free to ask.

[Robert]

Here's the other attachment.

[Vincent Belaïche]

Hello Robert,

First of all thank you very much for your kind help, I don't have any Linux or MAC at hand…

After having a look at the screen capture that you sent, I think that I can understand what is going on: that has to do with bug [#3], if you have a look at OperatingSystem.java (jpicedt.cvs.sourceforge.net) line 267 you see that when the installer is trying to create the launcher script then it first deletes it in the first place --- this is to avoid bug [#3] --- but it does that always, even if it is the first install and the file does not even exist, which supposedly is causing your problem.

I will make this portion of code a little more robust and let you know when I am done. Once this is ready I will ask you to make a trial on my developement version installer.

Kind regards,
Vincent.

[Vincent Belaïche]

Maybe you could do some trial to launch the installer from a console and tell me if the bogous installer produces any interesting output in addition to what you already posted in this bug report. To do this, please proceed this way:

1. open a console

Under MSWindows, this is just done with executing cmd.exe, but I don't know for MAC OS.

2. launch command:

/path-to-java/java -Xmx96m -classpath "/path-to-installer-jar;/path-to-installer-jar/jpicedt-install_-version-date_.jar" installer.Install

where you should replace:

• /path-to-java by the path of the java JVM interpreter
• /path-to-installer-jar by the path of the installer jar
• -version-date by the correct name postfix (that should be “_1_6-pre1_20130318”) in your case

[Robert]

Thanks for the fast response! I will need to find where the JVM interpreter is first.

I want to add that it did install the necessary files, in particular, the jpicedt.jar file that seems to me to be fully functional.

[Vincent Belaïche]

By the way, if you are just in hurry to install the latest jPicEdt, just create by hand an empty file named "jpicedt" in the /usr/bin directory and re-launch the installer. That should remove the problem — maybe ;-).

[Vincent Belaïche]

If the installation made as suggested in my previous post works, then you can get the path to the JVM interpreter by reading the jPicEdt launcher script with a text editor.

[Vincent Belaïche]

Hello,

I made some tentative installer attached. Could you please try it both with the /user/bin/jpicedt file existing and not existing, to check if everything works find both for the first install and subsequent install.

VBR,
Vincent.

[Robert]

Hi Vincent. I have yet to try the two step process you have indicated above but I did try your latest version and the same problem occurred. I will play around with it off and on as I plan to visit this page as you guys develop this further. Thank you once again for the prompt responses. Robert

[Vincent Belaïche]

Hello,

Was it exactly the same problem that occurred, i.e. a FileNotFound exeption on /usr/bin/jPicEdt_1.6pre1/jpicedt, or was it a similar problem, that is a FileNotFound exeption, but not on the same file ?