Support #1534: Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+ - CoCoA-5 - CoCoA Project

Support #1534

Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+

Added by John Abbott over 3 years ago. Updated over 1 year ago.

Status:

In Progress

Priority:

Immediate

Assignee:

Category:

Manual/documentation

Target version:

CoCoA-5.4.2

Start date:

10 Nov 2020

Due date:

% Done:

50%

Estimated time:

Spent time:

1.00 h

Description

Review the instructions for installing CoCoA-5.3 on MacOS.

Unfortunately it seems that an administrator account and password are needed even for a "personal" installation of CoCoA-5.

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#1 Updated by John Abbott over 3 years ago

I have had trouble installing CoCoA-5 from our website on my old mac.

#2 Updated by John Abbott over 3 years ago

Status changed from New to In Progress
% Done changed from 0 to 10

Anna could you do the following on your old MacBook:
(1) download the official distrib
(2) follow the instructions on the web site (exactly)
(3) note down all interactions which were necessary.

On my computer: if I CTRL-click on CoCoAInterpreter, a window appears asking if I really want to "open" the file; I say yes; then another window appears saying "Verifying...".
After some time the verification fails, and I have the option to "cancel" or "move to trash". HOWEVER, if I start ./CoCoAInterpreter in a shell then it seems to run (and complain that it cannot find the packages...).

What happens if you just do CTRL-click on ConfigEmacs, but do not do it with CoCoAInterpreter? Can you then start CoCoA-5 from inside emacs?

I also had to type in an administrator's username and password (when running as "guest" user).

NOTE even though verification failed (with a worrying message about CoCoAInterpreter being corrupted), I was then able to start it from inside Emacs.