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Re: problem with running port pspp-devel (MacOS X11 Server)


From: John Darrington
Subject: Re: problem with running port pspp-devel (MacOS X11 Server)
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:00:13 +0200
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:21:06AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
     html>head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type content="text/html 
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charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: 
space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="" dir="auto">Hi 
Georg,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this is not a specific 
question for pspp but for macports X11 in general. Any application that 
requires X11 needs a proper X11 server running. There are two possible ways to 
get an Xserver under MacOS.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 
class="">a) Install XQuartz without macports as an install package via&nbsp;<a 
href="http://www.xquartz.org"; class="">http://www.xquartz.org</a></div><div 
class="">b) Install XQuartz via macports (port: xorg-server)</div><div 
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Depending on this a different 
launchdaemon script has to be active. I have installed XQuartz via macports. 
My</div><div class="">display variable is:</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; 
line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span 
style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" 
class="">FriedrichsMacBook:~ fritz$ echo $DISPLAY</span></div><div 
style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" 
class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" 
class="">/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.sTURE7Hzol/org.macports:0</span></div></div><div
 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The scripts for the launchdaemon are 
here:</div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 
normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: 
no-common-ligatures" class="">FriedrichsMacBook:~ fritz$ ls -la 
/Library/LaunchAgents/org.mac*</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 
11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span 
style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r--&nbsp; 1 
root&nbsp; wheel&nbsp; 721 16 Okt 10:48 
/Library/LaunchAgents/org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist</span></div><div 
style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" 
class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" 
class="">-rw-r--r--&nbsp; 1 root&nbsp; wheel&nbsp; 632&nbsp; 2 Jan 09:43 
/Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.startx.plist</span></div></div><div 
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In order to install the right script 
you use launchctl. I now use the XServer which is installed via macports. 
To</div><div class="">enable the launch script:</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" 
class="">FriedrichsMacBook:~ fritz$ launchctl load -w&nbsp;</span><span 
style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" 
class="">/Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.startx.plist</span></div><div 
class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This will enable the launch script 
for the macports server. Maybe you need to disable the other one via 
???unload???.</div><div class="">Now logout and login again. You can test the 
proper behavior by starting any x application.</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" 
class="">FriedrichsMacBook:~ fritz$ x</span><font face="Menlo" size="3" 
class="">logo</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If 
everything works, you should see the Xlogo window opening. You can start the 
pspp gui via</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span 
style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">FriedrichsMacBook:~ 
fritz$ psppire</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 
launch script is persistent over boot. So after this you can run psppire always 
by just typing psppire in a terminal.</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class="">Friedrich</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" 
class=""><div class="">Am 30.03.2016 um 09:10 schrieb Georg Kessler &lt;<a 
href="mailto:address@hidden"; class="">address@hidden</a>&gt;:</div><br 
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" 
class="">Hallo Friedrich,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ich 
habe X11 (Version 2.7.5). Wenn ichs ??bers Terminal aufrufe so wie du anregst, 
dann kommt die Fehlermeldung ???Can???t open display:??? und dann folgt ein 
Pfad an dessen Ende ??????xquartz:0??? steht.</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class="">Wie rufe ich denn das Programm ??berhaupt 
auf?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Beste 
Gr????e,</div><div class="">Georg<br class="">
     <br class=""><div class=""><blockquote <type="cite" class=""><div 
class="">Am 13.03.2016 um 18:03 schrieb Friedrich Beckmann &lt;<a 
href="mailto:address@hidden"; class="">address@hidden</a>&gt;:</div><br 
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi 
Georg,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">i just installed 
pspp-devel @0.9.0_14 on MacOS 10.11.3 and it works.</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class="">Are you sure that you have an XServer running? If 
you install just pspp-devel without</div><div class="">any variant information, 
then an XServer is expected. An alternative is the quartz variant 
which</div><div class="">will be based on the gtk3 system without an 
xserver.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could you try to 
run in the terminal: xlogo</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 
class="">You should see a window with an X.</div><div class=""><br 
class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div 
class="">Friedrich</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote 
type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 13.03.2016 um 15:44 schrieb Georg Kessler 
&lt;<a href="mailto:address@hidden"; class="">address@hidden</a>&gt;:</div><br 
class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 
content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" 
class="">Hello,<br class=""><br class="">I am no experienced user of terminal 
commands and so I am quite lost with Macports and the downloaded port 
PSPP-devel.<br class=""><br class="">I managed to install PSPP on my MacOS 
10.10. The last line of the installation reads: ---&gt; &nbsp;No broken files 
found. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I believe, this is a good sign.<br class=""><br 
class="">The content is there as well as a Unix executable PSPP. When I run it 
in the terminal I get the error message: Error: Error for opening the output 
file `pspp.jnl': Permission denied. &nbsp;[original line in German: Fehler: 
Fehler beim ??ffnen der Ausgabedatei `pspp.jnl': Permission denied] &nbsp;<br 
class=""><br class="">I did have hick-ups with installing the dependency Python 
because a .list-file already existed. Installation was aborted, but I could 
manually override this problem. Python got installed. I did not clean the port 
installation, though, because I forgot that. I am not sure whether that is 
meaningful information.<br class=""><br class="">I would need help in 
overcoming this problem of running the program and also I would like to create 
an icon for my deck - does anybody have experience with that?<br class=""><br 
class="">Any help from this community is very much appreciated!<br class=""><br 
class="">Georg<br class=""><div class="">

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