[adamk]

hi,

just downloaded the developer tools from the apple site. when i try and install them, installation goes smoothly until the very last step when the installer starts writing files to the disk and i get the above message.

Can't write bom to path

and that is it. installation stops. any help? tia.

adam

[Scott_H]

I'm going to move this one over to Mac OS X Developer . Click through to find your post.

[pmoc]

Same error. Don'know what to do. Logs are not telling anything...

[henryhbk]

It is a decompression issue in stuffit expander.

let stuffit make the tar file (called 3.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1.1)

you must remove the pkg file that was made if appropriate!!!

1. open the terminal ap
2. su
[enter the root pw as appropriate]
3. switch to your download directory
4. enter tar -xvf 3.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1.1
5. This pkg file will now work, run from the finder


you will notice if you inspected the package contents, that the total package was <100k rather than many megabytes.


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Henry Feldman
NYU School of
Medicine

[This message has been edited by henryhbk (edited 10-12-2000).]

[henryhbk]

Oh, and BTW you may need to be root to rm that file. [i.e. from the command line]

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Henry Feldman
NYU School of
Medicine

[conny]

The installer crashes on me just when it has started the installation of the files. The log file tells the following:
object is a folder!
object is a folder!
Oct 12 23:13:42 Installer[415] Dynamic fmwk load NSBundle </System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Installation.framework> (loaded)
Oct 12 23:13:42 Installer[415] MediaKit.framework loaded from /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MediaKit.framework/Versions/A/MediaKit

The package is unpacked the right way with tar and is 72MB in size. I don't know what the problem is.

[pmoc]

Approx same pb, all files not copied. I'll try again from new OS X Install later. Anyone got this problem too?

[gabrielf]

I had the bompath problem and tried to do the "tar -xvf filename" command but it didn't work just gave me a bunch of errors and it kept giving me these errors until I forced it to quit with control-c
Then I read the thread about tar-files where it's mentioned that "gnutar -zxvf filename" should work and it did! After that it was possible to install all the tools without any trouble.

/Gabbe

Hmmm...Same problem....None of the posted methods worked....But after SU to root from a command line (and after tar -xvf + gnutar -zxvf) - the orginally unstuffed package decided to start working....Its installing right now....seems a little slow.

Ill post again if it didnt work.

Tj

Ok...worked.

But looks like you have to be logged in as ROOT - to get access OR install these tools....

Tj

[walter99]

Had the same problem. The easiest way to solve this is just to use MacOS9 with its Stuffit Expander to unstuff the downloaded file and then it will work.

There must be something wrong with the OS X version of Stuffit Expander.

Hope that helps.

Walter

[Gametes]

I logged in as root.
I downloaded the image with OmniWeb (because Omni leaves the file untouched after download). It is a .tgz file.
I cd to the download directory, confirmed its presence with ls, and typed "tar -xvf PublicBeta_Developer.tgz". This brought up a list of errors I had to ctrl-C out of.
So I typed "gnutar -zxvf PublicBeta_Developer.tgz" and this created a .pkg in the directory.
After double-clicking on it, the installer came up and everything went smoothly until I got an "error writing" or something.

This is everythin exactly as I did it. what went wrong? Do I need to create the 72MB file via stuffit in addition to the 69MB download before I make the new .pkg?

I had previously allowed Explorer and Stuffit to do all the work, but kept getting the Bom error, so I tried all this after deleting all previous files.

[citoc]

Gametes:

Try installing as root (ie, log in as root, then use Installer.app). I had the same problem 'till I tried that. Then it worked. All's well that ends well. :-)

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One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish.

This worked for me (as root):

1. Download the disk image (downloaded as: 4.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1)
2. Double-Click this file and StuffIt will expand it to
4.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1.1 and create Developer.pkg file.
3. Toss Developer.pkg, it's no good.
4. Start terminal app, cd to directory with the 4.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1.1 file.
5. In terminal app type: tar xvf 4.7.19.DownloadSoftware.1.1.1
This will create Developer.pkg file.
6. Double-Click this Developer.pkg, it will load.

Doug

[Hobbes]

This may sound crazy, but it works...

If you still have OS 9 on your computer, reboot into it and decompress the file in OS 9.

I have an iBook with 9.0.4 and OS X installed in the same partition. Both OS's use the same Carbon install of Stuffit Expander 6.0. For some reason OS X will never decompress it correctly. So I just rebooted into 9 and it worked like a charm.

Hope that helps.