[Squeakland] OLPC squeak on OSX

Randy Heiland heiland at indiana.edu
Fri Aug 10 06:08:18 PDT 2007


Is there an alternative to dragging the image onto the app to fire up  
etoys - preferably a command line equivalent?

-Randy

On Aug 6, 2007, at 5:51 AM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Ok by using the unix command ll in a terminal session I assume you  
> are a bit familiar with Unix.
> The issue here is the executable permission is not set on the  
> Squeak VM Opt.  It should look like
>
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 johnmci  staff  2624364 May 16 11:00 Squeak VM Opt
>
> Lacking the 'x' means it won't execute.
>
> Given the OLPC-Etoys070726.zip and in the Finder if you control- 
> click on it to get the command menu and pick
> 'Open with'  it should say that 'BOMArchiveHelper.app' is the  
> application used to open a ZIP file.
>
> Double clicking on the ZIP file in the macintosh Finder should also  
> run BOMArchiveHelper to unzip the file.
>
> I suspect you used the unzip command line tool to unzip the zip  
> file, in checking this way of unzipping the archive I found it does  
> not  restore the execute bit properly.
>
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Randy Heiland wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>> I am thinking of you all at Squeakfest this week and thought I'd try
>> to install/play with the OLPC-Etoys that was advertised on the
>> Squeakfest site.  Downloading that .zip file and unzipping it, I
>> followed the terse README and dragged 'etoys.image' onto
>> 'Squeakland.app', but nothing happened, i.e. Etoys didn't pop up.
>> Still being a somewhat newbie in OSX, could someone offer up some  
>> clues?
>>
>> Previously, I had downloaded etoys from squeakland and that ran fine
>> on my Mac.
>>
>> Fwiw, I'm running OSX 10.4.10 and have:
>>
>> ~/dev/Education/OLPC$ ll
>> total 89264
>> drwxr-xr-x   25 heiland  heiland       850 Aug  3 12:42 ExampleEtoys/
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland     76288 Jan 21  2006
>> KedamaPlugin2.dll
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland  24631486 Aug  3 12:33 OLPC-
>> Etoys070726.zip
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland       340 Jul 26 11:12 README
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland   1077760 Sep 23  2004 Squeak.exe
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland       211 Jul 26 11:36 Squeak.ini
>> drwxr-xr-x    3 heiland  heiland       102 Aug  3 12:42  
>> Squeakland.app/
>> -rw-r--r--    1 heiland  heiland  19899484 Jul 26 11:37 etoys.image
>>
>>
>> ~/dev/Education/OLPC/Squeakland.app/Contents/MacOS$ ll
>> total 5136
>> -rw-r--r--   1 heiland  heiland  2624364 May 16 11:00 Squeak VM Opt
>> -rw-r--r--   1 heiland  heiland       66 May 16 11:01 Squeak VM  
>> Opt.sig
>>
>> thanks, Randy
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