Re: launching app post-install in leopard
Re: launching app post-install in leopard
- Subject: Re: launching app post-install in leopard
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:34:42 -0500
Replying to myself...
My problem apparently has nothing to do with the Quarantine attribute
either.
The application I am trying to launch from my installer is a PPC app,
built in CodeWarrior. It crashes in Mac OS X 10.5, on an Intel Mac. It
looks like the crash might be in Rosetta. The interesting thing about
this is that the 2nd and later times that you run the app (or run the
installer again) everything is fine!
By the way, the installer is running as root, and the app is also owned
by root.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
- Rick
On 12/21/2007 12:15 PM, email@hidden wrote:
I am trying to test this. I downloaded a copy of my installer from the
internet, and ran it on a Leopard machine. The app I launched from the
installer crashed. But the 2nd time I run the installer (or just run
the app from the hard drive), the app launches and runs fine. Is that
the expected behavior?
I then tried downloading the installer again, and the app again launches
fine.
Does this sound like the "quarantined app" issue?
What do I need to change to force the system to view this as a new app,
so that I can test the effect of adding "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine
myApp.app" to my scripts?
Thanks in advance!
- Rick
On 11/28/2007 9:11 AM, Martin Bestmann wrote:
On 27.11.2007, at 13:16, Adam Fisk wrote:
Someone mentioned the issue with not being able to call "open
myApp.app" in a postflight script because Leopard notices it's
downloaded from the Internet. I'm seeing the same thing with
launchctl.
Anyone know a way to launch your program after the install on Leopard?
Thanks very much.
The problem is that Apple attaches to those files coming from the
internet an extended attribute. Run this from terminal to see it
xattr -l myApp.app
Once attribute is removed with
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine myApp.app
You can launch it without user interaction.
Hope this helps,
Martin
PS.: Apple heavily uses now extended attributes for various things in
Leopard.
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