Hi My application depends on another third-party framework and I need to make sure the framework is installed before my application runs. I am using AppleScript to check whether the framework is installed or not. I am packaging my application using PackageMaker. How do I package the other framework's pkg file in my PackageMaker project...
I have an app I need to create an installer for, and all the installer needs to do (besides copying the app) is run a script (or executable) that is not part of the app itself. Any help on how I can do this? I see in the Requirements tab there is a Results of Script action, and there is also the Preinstall Actions in the Actions tab whic...
I'm a newbie at this so I'll explain what I did so far: Open PackageMaker and drag my MyApp from /Applications into the left sidebar Changed the owner/group for MyApp to root/admin and rwxrwxr-x Created a postinstall shell script and selected it in the Scripts tab So now, how do I add that executable (Adobe AIR Installer) that I wa...
Using PackageMaker, how do I make a .(m)pkg that will require that SIMBL is installed - if it's installed, the installation should simply proceed, otherwise, SIMBL should be installed before installing my SIMBL plugin? I tried simply dragging in SIMBL.pkg to the left-hand pane, but somehow all the resources and InstallationCheck script ...
I've put together my very first package with PackageMaker (for a system service), but I am not happy about several faults: Frequent crashes while applying target permissions to my source files Package source files are not automatically or easily refreshed File filter does not work Is there something else out there more capable of thi...
Everything worked on 10.5, but now my PackageMaker installation project is broken. I've been fighting a problem for a few days now, and either Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.1) has broken PackageMaker installations I am lacking a very, very basic tidbit of knowledge To narrow down the problem, I've gotten to this point: Create a new Pack...
My PackageMaker project was generating a .mpkg file, but then, all of the sudden, when I go to build, it only generates .pkg files. The .mpkg files are actually directories into which I place my custom installer bundle along with an InstallerSections.plist file to specify the order in which my custom view should display. The .pkg files a...
My installer places a file into /Library/Application Support/AppName. As a final step of the install process in a custom installer plugin (Objective-C code) I check for a more recent version of that file. If it exists, I download it and then attempt to overwrite the one created by the installer. The issue is that I apparently don't have ...
I'm using PackageMaker to build an installer package for my OS X application. I need to customize the dialog that the user sees when installation fails (return non-zero value from post install script). The Edit Interface dialog in PackageMaker does not list the error dialog. Is there a way to manually modify the PackageMaker project t...
I have content to be installed, but it's file and folder layout is determined by the brittle, old, Windows installer. I can't fundamentally alter the structure, and I'd prefer not to alter it at all. I can't put it in a PackageMaker package and somehow get the Windows installer to figure out how to read it, for example. Is there a way t...
Is anyone familiar with installing plugins in FileMaker? I created a package in PackageMaker using a new plugin. Everything seems to install correctly, I can see the new plugin in the extensions folder, but when I open FileMaker and look at the list of plugin it does not appear. Anyone know what I'm missing? I've been focusing on per...
PackageMaker's Project menu contains an "Overwrite Project Package" option. I can't find any documentation of this option, nor any references to it online. Does anybody know what its function is? ...
Hi I am using Mac 10.6 i.e. snow leopard. I used Package Maker to create installer for my own application. The installer works fine. My application wants minimum JRE 1.6 (Java Runtime Environment). I want if my system do not have JRE1.6 or higher then the user should not be able to install the software. The system should show an error me...
I'm using PackageMaker (ver 3.0.3 on Leopard 10.5.8) to install an application and want to check the Model Identifier & CPU prior to installation. The application does not work with certain models of MacBookPros. I've tried to use a pre-install shell script where I grab the system_profiler output and grep it for specific Model Identifier...
Hi I found that installation check script first executes a condition if the condition is satisfied then installation proceeds other wise installation aborts. I want to write installation check script and apply the same while creating installer using PackageMaker. How to create and execute installation check script. Thanks Sunil Kumar Sa...
Hello, i want to make the installation package on the mac os of my java application using the package maker. is there any one having the link that will show step by step guidance for performing this. ...
OS X 10.5, packagemaker 3.0.3 I need to make sure an app is installed, which sets a folder in a specific location. I make a test: File exists on system: ~/Documents/Scripts/Droppings/ReadMe.txt Also: ~/Documents ~/Documents/ I can set it to true or false, and no matter, what, it will still fail, always. If I use a full path, it works...
I have two issues with Allow Relocation (Package: Xxx, Components): It keeps getting turned on as if by magic. How can I avoid this? I need it off (sub-optimal, I know - see #2) If Allow Relocation is on, the Installer first places the .app into /Applications, but then relocates it, copying it on top of my original .app in my developme...
While developing an install with PackageMaker (XCode 3.2.1 1613, for Snow Leopard), sometimes the permissions, owner, and group that I have set on most (if not all) of the files just vaporize. The result looks like I just added the files to PackageMaker, before setting the file perm/own/grp on each. What's weird, is that most of those x...
I used PackageMaker(3.0.3) to package a App and add Package version to my app , but when I used Finder to view the info and I didn't find the version info , and When I used packagemaker(2) in the Tiger I can add the package version and view it in the Finder? ...