On 15-Feb-2012, at 7:52 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:
On 2012-02-15, at 9:14 AM, Sid H wrote:
Hi all,
I tried the prebuilt macosx images, but they both show failures when installing. I downloaded the dmg files from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6... and http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6...
The final summary say "The installation failed. The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
From a terminal I'm able to run gsi and gsc after this. I presume its because I don't have gcc installed (yet!). Is that a possible reason? Does the installer try to run something that requires gcc?
I'm on a new Macbook Pro (hence no gcc), and I tried both the 32bit and 64bit versions.
That is strange. I have used the 32 bit installer to install v4.6.4 on a MacBook pro (early 2011 version), a 3 year old MacBook Pro, a 2 year old iMac, and there were no issues.
Have you checked some obvious things (perhaps your disk is full, or your download was corrupted (which browser did you use?)).
There's plenty of space on disk; gambit-c is one of the first things I'm installing. To download I used Safari. Are the MD5 checksums available? I have the following
$ md5 gambc-v4_v4_6_4-macosx-intel* MD5 (gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel32.dmg) = f48c3f366762045a1d032e35f5610c93 MD5 (gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel64.dmg) = 6ab0a9d71baeee026629c8b9fe6ce7be
I wonder if the precise error message was added to the system log. Can you check the content of /var/log/system.log ?
The log has the following -
Feb 15 19:47:23 h83-5 installd[2346]: Starting Feb 15 19:47:23 h83-5 installd[2346]: uid=0, euid=0 Feb 15 19:47:26 h83-5 Installer[2340]: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance. Feb 15 19:47:33 h83-5 installd[2346]: Exiting.