[gambit-list] OSX - 4.6.4 prebuilt images installation shows failure

Sid H shortsightedsid at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 09:44:02 EST 2012


On 15-Feb-2012, at 7:52 PM, Marc Feeley wrote:

> 
> On 2012-02-15, at 9:14 AM, Sid H wrote:
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>> 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_4-macosx-intel32.dmg and http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~gambit/download/gambit/v4.6/prebuilt/gambc-v4_6_4-macosx-intel64.dmg 
>> 
>> 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?
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>> 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.




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