[OS X TeX] installing TeX-Fat.dmg

[Tim Lighthiser]

Thank you Michael,

The icon is now clickable, but when I try to install
"Unarchiving failed . . ." appears and the following
is in the message box/es (and so on for TeX foundation
and TeX programs)

gs6.01.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such file or
directory
gs6.01.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such file or
directory
tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: No such file or
directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Child returned status 2
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors
Task terminated with status 2

teTeX-texmf.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such
file or directory
teTeX-texmf.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such
file or directory
tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: No such file or
directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Child returned status 2
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors
Task terminated with status 2

TeXLive-bin.pre_install: /usr/bin/basename: No such
file or directory
tar (child): Cannot exec gzip: No such file or
directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Child returned status 2
/Volumes/TeXvolume/i-Installer.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar:
Error exit delayed from previous errors
Task terminated with status 2

Your thoughts please,

Thank you,

Tim




--- Michael Murray <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I just finished re-downloading TeX-Fat.dmg.
> >
> >Now, when I click onto the icon to install, (marked
> >with Explorer) OS 9.2.2 boots up and Explorer
> searches
> >for info on it.
> >
> >That's the extent of its function thus far.
> >
> >Would appreciate any help with this.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >Tim
> >
> 
> 
> Hi Tim
> 
> Are you clicking on the TeX-Fat.dmg ?  If so the
> OS has got confused and thinks its is an Explorer
> document (classic Explorer by the look of it.)
> It needs to be opened in Disk Copy.
> Find Disk Copy in Applications/Utilities.  Drag and
> drop
> TeX-Fat.dmg onto Disk Copy.  Hopefully it will mount
> it as a
> volume and then you can run the installer inside
> that volume.
> 
> If that doesn't work try Control-Clicking with it
> and
> hope there is a contextual menu saying Open with.
> Follow
> that and try and track down Disk Copy.
> 
> If that doesn't do it do Command-I on it (Get Info
> in the Finder)
> and select Disk Copy as the application to open it.
> Then
> you should be able to double click it and have it
> launch disk copy.
> 
> Michael
> 
> PS It hasn't by any chance saved as TeX-Fat.dmg.1
> has it ? It
> needs to be a name ending in .dmg to have any hope
> of  being
> opened by Disk Copy when you double click.
> 
> -- 
>
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