<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi, yes bash is just the normal terminal mode. <div class="">The response is saying that you need to give special permission to install a link to the Self vm in /usr/local/bin</div><div class="">For some reason my laptop doesn’t require that. </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">Let’s try giving it that permission:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> sudo <span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">ln -s /Applications/Self\ Control.app/Contents/Resources/Self.app/Contents/MacOS/Self /usr/local/bin/Self</span></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(‘sudo’ means to do the action as a ‘super user’. It will probably ask you for your password)</span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">> </span></font><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">ls /usr/local/bin/Self</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">This should now work! I’m sacrificing a chicken here to the computer gods to see if that helps.</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">Then hopefully the rest of the plan works:</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">> Self<br class=""><br class="">you should see the VM starting up as below, when you get the Self prompt, 'VM# ‘ then enter _Quit, ie<br class=""><br class="">VM# _Quit<br class=""><br class="">this should take you back to bash. Now cd (‘change directory’) to your directory with the snapshots and try running them:<br class=""><br class="">> cd ~/Desktop/self<br class="">> Self -s morphic.snap<br class=""><br class="">this should bring up a morphic window as well as the Self prompt. enter _Quit as before to quit, or choose Quit from the desktop menu (right click somewhere in the open Self window)</font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font face="Georgia" size="2" class="">If we get too bogged down in this maybe sometime next week we should hop on a chat system to do it in realtime. What timezone are you in?<br class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="2" class="">Russell</font></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Georgia" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="2" class=""><br class=""></font></span></font><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 27 Apr 2018, at 11:37 am, <a href="mailto:itsnotgregg@gmail.com" class="">itsnotgregg@gmail.com</a> [self-interest] <<a href="mailto:self-interest@yahoogroups.com" class="">self-interest@yahoogroups.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; position: relative;" class=""><div id="ygrp-msg" style="line-height: 1.22em; z-index: 1;" class=""><div id="ygrp-text" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Georgia;" class=""><p style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">if bash is just the normal terminal mode then:</p><div style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">p/Contents/MacOS/Self /usr/local/bin/Self</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">ln: /usr/local/bin/Self: Permission denied</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Greggs-MBP:~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://greggarthurevansgmail.com/" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">greggarthurevansgmail.com</a>$ ls /usr/local/bin/Self</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">ls: /usr/local/bin/Self: No such file or directory</span></p><p class="p1" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;">Greggs-MBP:~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://greggarthurevansgmail.com/" style="line-height: 1.22em; font-family: Verdana;" class="">greggarthurevansgmail.com</a>$<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.22em;"></span><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></p></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""><br style="line-height: 1.22em;" class=""></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.22em; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); height: 0px;" class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>