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Re: Have you got your NXT yet?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 4 Jul 2006 05:28:50 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Tim Rueger wrote:
> Mac support! Woo-hoo! And it doesn't suck!
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> On my Mac, the software installed its items
> into the directory I specified ("Applications"),
> which meant I ended up with the NXT app, the
> "engine" dir, and other items in my Applications
> folder. I moved them into a subfolder afterward,
> and the NXT app ran fine.
One very big caveat about this - at the end of the installer process on a Mac it
runs chmod -R 777 on the contents of the folder installed into. Thus, every
single thing in your Applications directory (and all subdirectories, including
bundles) now has full access permissions for everyone. Running "Repair
Permissions" in disk utility will only fix those apps with receipts in
/Library/Receipts (i.e. mostly just Apple apps).
Even worse, the uninstaller script that is created for you will delete the
entire folder that you installed into. Thus, your entire Applications folder
would be deleted if you run it! Simply moving the script to a new folder
doesn't fix things - the directory it's going to delete is hard coded in the
script!
Bottom line - if you're installing on a Mac, just accept all the defaults. You
could be very sad otherwise (as I was).
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| (...) Ye gods! Those are some huge bugs. Is there any way to report them to Lego or NI? (Guess I spoke too soon about good Mac support.) I'm repairing permissons now, and I've fixed up my uninstaller shell script. But this is a big problem that (...) (18 years ago, 4-Jul-06, to lugnet.robotics)
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