On Nov 26, 2007 4:41 AM, Josh Colwell <email@hidden> wrote:
> Leopard's X11 is unusable with IDL (the Interactive Data Language)
> that I use for the bulk of my work (X11 crashes out regularly), so I
> tried to follow Ben Byer's recipe to install Tiger's X11. I run into
> this error on the third step:
> sudo ditto -Vx --noqtn /Volumes/X11\ Update\ 2006/X11Update2006.pkg/
> Contents/Archive.pax.gz /
> Password:
> >>> Copying /Volumes/X11 Update 2006/X11Update2006.pkg
> ditto: /Volumes/X11 Update 2006/X11Update2006.pkg: Is a directory
>
> >>> Copying /Contents/Archive.pax.gz
> ditto: /Contents/Archive.pax.gz: No such file or directory
The thing starting with /Volumes and ending with .gz is supposed to be
one path without any spaces (other than those prefixed by '\'). It
looks like somewhere along the line it got word-wrapped into two
tokens. To be clear, it should be
"...X11Update2006.pkg/Contents/...".
Cheers,
-n8
--
>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
>>>-- Mojave Project -- http://mojave.cs.caltech.edu -->
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