Tor Installation fails on Mac

[Andrew Lewman]

On 06/30/2009 05:33 PM, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> It has been a while since I have run Tor and wanted to get current and
> configure a server.  I pulled down the installations bundles, both
> 2.0.35-0.1.14-universal and 2.1.16-rc-0.1.14-universal.  I'm trying to
> do the installation on my Intel Mac running OX X 10.5.7 and Firefox
> 3.5.  When I run the installation bundle it gets partway through and
> then I get the failure message: "Install Failed.  The following install
> step failed: run postflight script for Tor."  If I look at the console I
> see this:

It fails while attempting to start Firefox to automatically install
torbutton for you.  The rest of Tor, Privoxy, and Vidalia are installed
just fine.  And torbutton.xpi is probably in /Library/Torbutton, too.

In trying to make the whole install easier for the user, it made the
process more brittle.  Any one piece fails, and Apple considers the
whole installation a failure.

All of this installer nonsense will be replaced by a drag and drop
install in the Vidalia 0.2.x releases.

-- 
Andrew Lewman
The Tor Project
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