Re: Tor Installation fails on Mac

[Beirne Konarski <beirne@xxxxxxxxx>]

 As it happens I have already gone ahead and tried setting up the  
server and it is working fine, as you said it would.

Thanks,
Beirne

On Jul 4, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Lewman wrote:

> On 06/30/2009 05:33 PM, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> > It has been a while since I have run Tor and wanted to get current  
> > and
> > configure a server.  I pulled down the installations bundles, both
> > 2.0.35-0.1.14-universal and 2.1.16-rc-0.1.14-universal.  I'm trying  
> > to
> > do the installation on my Intel Mac running OX X 10.5.7 and Firefox
> > 3.5.  When I run the installation bundle it gets partway through and
> > then I get the failure message: "Install Failed.  The following  
> > install
> > step failed: run postflight script for Tor."  If I look at the  
> > console I
> > see this:
>
> It fails while attempting to start Firefox to automatically install
> torbutton for you.  The rest of Tor, Privoxy, and Vidalia are  
> installed
> just fine.  And torbutton.xpi is probably in /Library/Torbutton, too.
>
> In trying to make the whole install easier for the user, it made the
> process more brittle.  Any one piece fails, and Apple considers the
> whole installation a failure.
>
> All of this installer nonsense will be replaced by a drag and drop
> install in the Vidalia 0.2.x releases.
>
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> Andrew Lewman
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