Problem installing Self 4.4 on Snow Leopard

[sxyzh2]

Success starts at (iv) below!
Unsuccessful steps on the way documented (i) to (iii), in case might help someone later.

--- In self-interest at yahoogroups.com, Russell Allen <mail at ...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know why /usr/bin/Self hasn't been created properly, sorry.
> First step, is whether you can run images. Can you double-click the SelfDroplet.app? It should give you an open file dialog. Choose your Clean-4.4.snap (doesn't matter where that file is, or whether it is executable), and it should open the snapshot in the VM.
> If that works, then at least you have a VM.  

Can't see how to enact that.

(i)  
     Although I have administrative access on the machine, I can only get into 
     /Library/Self/0
     by going superuser. And  I dont know how to make the OS X finder go super user 
     for GUI operations.  Hence  can't see how to try double clicking on the SelfDroplet.app.

(ii) I tried   
	 open SelfDroplet.app 
     but that gave
	 LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file                    
        /Library/Self/0/SelfDroplet.app.

(iii) I had a go at copying SelfDroplet.app into a directory with less fierce permissions, 
      but given all the many subparts this got bogged down in permission issues.

> Secondly, to open a snapshot from the terminal, open a terminal, cd to the directory your Clean-4.4.snap file is 

(iv) For luck I copied Clean-4.4.snap into 
      /Library/Self/0/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/

(doesn't have to be any particular directory) and try the command: 
> /Library/Self/0/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self -s Clean-4.4.snap
> (type 'quit' to quit the REPL)
> If both these work, then you have a VM and can run images. Otherwise something else is wrong as well.

(v)  Oh yeah!  That's doing the job!
      Legendary programming environment now running.
      Thanks so much for taking the trouble :-)

> Thirdly, the file at /usr/bin/Self is just a small shellscript which is:
> #!/bin/sh
> /Library/Self/0/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self $@
> so if you create such a file with those contents and put it at /usr/bin/Self then you should have a system just as if the installer had worked.
> Russell

(vi) Great tip -thanks!
Most grateful, Russell
Simon.


> On 19/02/2012, at 2:01 AM, sxyzh2 wrote:
> > Dear All
> > 
> > Two colleagues and myself are getting the same problem installing Self 4.4 on Snow Leopard (in my case 10.6.8).
> > 
> > Any tips gratefully received.
> > 
> > 1. The Mac OSX Self-4.4.pkg installer runs apparently OK.
> > 2. The Self VM and Droplet are duly installed in /Library/Self/0/
> > 3. However, there is no sign of the shell script in /usr/bin/Self.
> > 
> > 4. By using su (administrative permission is not enough) one can copy Clean-4.4.snap to /Library/Self/0/SelfDroplet.app and mark it as executable
> > like so.
> > 
> > bash-3.2# cd SelfDroplet.app
> > bash-3.2# ls -al
> > total 8992
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 admin 501 136 14 Feb 18:18 .
> > drwx------ 4 admin wheel 136 9 Feb 23:19 ..
> > -rw-r--r--@ 1 root 501 4600436 14 Feb 18:18 Clean-4.4.snap
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 admin 501 204 14 Feb 17:32 Contents
> > 
> > bash-3.2# chmod u+x Clean-4.4.snap
> > 
> > bash-3.2# ls -al
> > total 8992
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 admin 501 136 14 Feb 18:18 .
> > drwx------ 4 admin wheel 136 9 Feb 23:19 ..
> > -rwxr--r--@ 1 root 501 4600436 14 Feb 18:18 Clean-4.4.snap
> > drwxr-xr-x 6 admin 501 204 14 Feb 17:32 Contents
> > bash-3.2#
> > 
> > 5. After which the command
> > open Clean-4.4.snap
> > causes an OS X dialog box to appear which says something like
> > "are you sure you want to run this application downloaded from the internet?"
> > But then the launch fails with error 10810 in the terminal window.
> > 
> > 6.Tried numerous other things but nothing works.
> > 
> > Any tips gratefully received.
> > Many thanks
> > 
> >
>