[Xquartz-dev] 2.5.0_beta1

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Thu Dec 3 15:54:55 PST 2009


Ah, yeah... that's Installer.app trying to be smart.

On Dec 3, 2009, at 15:13, Jean-Francois Sygnet wrote:

> 
> 
> Jeremy Huddleston a écrit :
>> On Dec 3, 2009, at 12:22, Jean-Francois Sygnet wrote:
>>> The XQuartz.pkg installer doesn't install (for me at least :-) /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/
>>> but if I get it "manually", every thing is fine.
>> I'm not sure what you mean.  Why doesn't it install?  Does it give an error?
> 
> Sorry, my mistake :-(
> 
> Somewhere on my hard disk was another (old) version of XQuartz.app/ (actually in ~/Downloads/) and it seems that it prevented the XQuartz.pkg installer to copy the XQuartz.app/ (version 1.7.3) to /Applications/Utilities/
> I.e.: the installer seemed to work perfectly, finishing with
> "Installation Successful" and with no errors in the logfile,
> but eventually no XQuartz.app was found in /Application/Utilities/
> 
> Deleting ~/Downloads/XQuartz.app/ and relaunching XQuartz.pkg
> solved the problem.
> 
> (And I use a MacBookPro1,1 under 10.6.2)
> 
> JF Sygnet
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