Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
- Subject: Re: Installer runs, but doesn't install anything
- From: David Buxton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 22:16:22 +0100
On 7 Jun 2010, at 20:23, Jon Hodgson wrote:
> yeah, I'm not seeing anything giving me a clue there either
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Paul Sanders <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I can't see any likely messages in the log, and anyway I just tried it
>>> on a machine which hasn't got a copy of it anywhere... and when I've
>>> finished, there isn't a copy of it anywhere.
>>
>> I thought Xochitl Lunde's suggestion sounded good in that case: run the
>> installer from the command line in verbose mode. It doesn't though, I
>> notice, tell you what files it is copying when you do this (!).
watchedinstall can show you what paths an installer touches.
http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/
You can use it to install the package and at the end it will list all paths that the installer touched (either files copied from the payload or installation scripts).
You need to download the current release and either run the setup script or just run it from the current directory. Here's an example of downloading it and running it using Terminal.app:
curl -O http://bitbucket.org/davidbuxton/watchedinstall/downloads/watchedinstall-1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf watchedinstall-1.1.tar.gz
cd watchedinstall-1.1
export PATH=$(pwd):${PATH}
sudo ./watchedinstall.py --verbose /path/to/your/install.pkg
David
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