[Rd] R install problem on MacOS 10.5.1 (PR#10476)

Saleem Bhatti saleem at cs.st-andrews.ac.uk
Mon Dec 3 21:52:03 CET 2007


Simon;

See below.

Cheers,
--/Saleem

On 3 Dec 2007, at 15:42, Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Saleem Bhatti wrote:
>
>> Simon;
>>
>> On 30 Nov 2007, at 15:38, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>
>>> Window -> Installer Log
>>> You can then use Save ... to save it in a file.
>>
>> OK - file is attached.
>>
>
> Thanks. Your system is broken - you have an infinite softlink loop  
> in /usr/local or /usr/local/lib
> Can you send me the output of
> ls -ld /usr/local

saleem at logie:~ 501$ ls -ld /usr/local
drwxr-xr-x  14 saleem  saleem  476 26 Oct 19:48 /usr/local
saleem at logie:~ 502$

>
> ls -l /usr/local

saleem at logie:~ 502$ ls -l /usr/local
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    3 root    wheel    102 17 Oct 19:05 OpenSourceLicenses
drwxr-xr-x    3 root    wheel    102 17 Oct 19:05 OpenSourceVersions
drwxr-xr-x  108 saleem  saleem  3672 30 Nov 16:19 bin
drwxr-xr-x   19 root    wheel    646  4 Nov 20:27 include
drwxr-xr-x    6 root    wheel    204 30 Nov 16:19 info
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root    saleem    14 26 Oct 19:48 lib -> /usr/local/lib
drwxr-xr-x   88 saleem  saleem  2992  4 Oct 10:40 lib 1
drwxr-xr-x    4 saleem  saleem   136  4 Oct 10:40 libexec
drwxr-xr-x    7 root    wheel    238 20 Oct 11:04 man
drwxr-xr-x    3 root    saleem   102  4 Jul 10:23 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   13 saleem  saleem   442 29 Jun 08:12 share
drwxr-xr-x    4 root    wheel    136 29 Jun 08:14 texlive
saleem at logie:~ 503$

>
> ls -l /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/

saleem at logie:~ 503$ ls -l /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel   136 17 Mar  2007 X11R6
drwxr-xr-x   10 root  wheel   340 17 Mar  2007 bin
drwxr-xr-x  234 root  wheel  7956 26 Oct 19:48 include
drwxr-xr-x  228 root  wheel  7752 26 Oct 19:48 lib
drwxr-xr-x    4 root  wheel   136 17 Mar  2007 libexec
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel    10  4 Oct 10:40 local -> /usr/local
saleem at logie:~ 504$


>
> ls -l /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local

saleem at logie:~ 504$ ls -l /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10  4 Oct 10:40 /Developer/SDKs/ 
MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local -> /usr/local
saleem at logie:~ 505$

>
>
> (in Terminal), please?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
>>> Well, yes, but you said "automated install" - so how were you  
>>> running an "automated" install? For me automated install is run  
>>> via /usr/sbin/installer utility and that doesn't have any UI, so I  
>>> was wondering what are you using exactly?
>>
>> My apologies for the confusion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --/Saleem
>>
>>
>>
>> <R-2.6.1-Installer_Log 30-Nov-2007.txt>
>>
>>
>



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