Hi all, A user on the French mailing list has just related how he managed to overcome the problem of installing the French language pack on Mac PPC. There has been an issue with lang pack installation on this OS for a while now, but I don't think anyone had a test PPC machine to be able to investigate further. I'm going to translate the essence of his message here :
"I've been having problems installing the French language pack with LibreOfice 3.4.0 on PowerPC Mac OS Tiger 10.4.11. The language installer just seems to quit without actually installing anything. Here's how I managed to solve the problem. Looking at the logs via the Console.app, I found this line: /Volumes/LibreOffice Language Pack/LibreOffice Language Pack.app/Contents/osx_install.applescript:2089:2267: execution error: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/mdfind: Permission denied (126). So, looking at mdfind attributes : ---------- 1 root wheel 22892 Mar 26 2005 /usr/bin/mdfind Ah, so not executable. A quick : chmod +x /usr/bin/mdfind and then restart the installer. This time it gets a little bit further but stops with an error message saying that there are insufficient rights and asking me to put my admin password and try again. If I answer YES, and give the admin password, the installer quits abruptly again. So next step, I open Terminal.app : sudo open LibreOffice\ Language\ Pack.app/ enter the required admin password and then the installation proceeds as normal, and I get the "successful installation" message at the end. So it looks like the installer script attempts to use mdfind and this is only available to the admin account on Tiger PPC. In fact mdfind is only available to admin on OSX 10.6.7 as well, but in that case, why doesn't the script baulk on Intel as well ? The line in osx_install.applescript is : set the found_ooos_all to (do shell script "mdfind \"kMDItemContentType == 'com.apple.application-bundle' && kMDItemDisplayName == 'LibreOffice*' && kMDItemDisplayName != 'LibreOffice Language Pack.app'\"") & I was wondering whether the user in question might have activated the root account, which on Tiger as I seem to recall from my own experience changes the permissions for many of the commands, even if the normal user has admin rights. When I had Tiger with root activated, I had to log in as root on many an occasion in order to install apps that used commands called from AppleScript requiring root access. I have asked the user for more feedback on this point. Alex _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
