I want to download PAGE for Mac, but I'm having trouble opening it or I'm not sure how to download it. I would like to work with Visual Studio, for example, or if there is another way to download it, please let me know.
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2025-01-17
Hi back :o)
Well, first, I have to warn you that we are having problems with PAGE running on the latest Mac OS. Many things work, but there are some very frustrating things that don't work correctly.
Now on to your issue.
When you download PAGE, it comes down as a .tgz compressed file. So first, once you get it downloaded, you will need to decompress it. Usually the operating system knows how to do this. I don't use a Mac, so I'm not sure what the procedure is there. However, since I understand that the Mac is very similar to Linux. When we have a .tgz file in Linux, we 'right click' or use the ring finger button. This (at least on Linux) will provide a context menu with one of the options being "Open with Archive Manager". Then, you will be prompted to extract it. You will need to provide a folder name as somewhere to place it. I usually ask it to create a new folder in my Downloads folder that is the same name of the package. In this case, it would be something like Page 8.0. Then I click on Extract. This puts all of the PAGE files into that new folder.
You have to have Python installed (3.8 or greater). To run PAGE then, the simple syntax would be:
python3 {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py
or if your python starts with just "python":
python {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py
However, when you run PAGE, you should be in a dedicated folder when you try to run it.
My development folder is on my Desktop and is named ... wait for it ... Development.
Then I create a folder for what my project will be called.
Hopefully the Mac will allow you to create an alias like Linux does, which allows us to create a shortcut to the string the Operating system terminal will understand.
Again, for a Linux user we would create the alias in a file called bash_aliases and the line looks like this...
alias page="python3 {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py"
From there all I have to do is type :
page {optional project name}.
I hope this helps.
Greg
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Hi,
I want to download PAGE for Mac, but I'm having trouble opening it or I'm not sure how to download it. I would like to work with Visual Studio, for example, or if there is another way to download it, please let me know.
Thank you!
Hi back :o)
Well, first, I have to warn you that we are having problems with PAGE running on the latest Mac OS. Many things work, but there are some very frustrating things that don't work correctly.
Now on to your issue.
When you download PAGE, it comes down as a .tgz compressed file. So first, once you get it downloaded, you will need to decompress it. Usually the operating system knows how to do this. I don't use a Mac, so I'm not sure what the procedure is there. However, since I understand that the Mac is very similar to Linux. When we have a .tgz file in Linux, we 'right click' or use the ring finger button. This (at least on Linux) will provide a context menu with one of the options being "Open with Archive Manager". Then, you will be prompted to extract it. You will need to provide a folder name as somewhere to place it. I usually ask it to create a new folder in my Downloads folder that is the same name of the package. In this case, it would be something like Page 8.0. Then I click on Extract. This puts all of the PAGE files into that new folder.
You have to have Python installed (3.8 or greater). To run PAGE then, the simple syntax would be:
python3 {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py
or if your python starts with just "python":
python {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py
However, when you run PAGE, you should be in a dedicated folder when you try to run it.
My development folder is on my Desktop and is named ... wait for it ... Development.
Then I create a folder for what my project will be called.
Hopefully the Mac will allow you to create an alias like Linux does, which allows us to create a shortcut to the string the Operating system terminal will understand.
Again, for a Linux user we would create the alias in a file called bash_aliases and the line looks like this...
alias page="python3 {path to the PAGE folder}/page/page.py"
From there all I have to do is type :
page {optional project name}.
I hope this helps.
Greg