[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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