Re: [Ifeffit] Athena and Artemis installation problem

Hi Wuhib, If these problems persist, instead of relying on Bruce or others, perhaps consider running a free virtual machine of windows to install Demeter. I have a Mac as a main computer and run the software through virtual Windows machine without much of problem. Just a thought, Chris Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 26, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Wuhib Tamrat wrote:

I am assuming the obvious way to execute “Artemis” and “Hephaestus” you were talking about would be to do the same thing as “Athena”; that is to type the name of the software and execute. But, I have tried that for both and it did not work. So I will wait for a response from a Mac expert on that.

And when the program becomes unresponsive you guessed error messages might be displayed on the terminal window which I neglected to include in my previous mail. But no error messages exist.

Thank you

Wuhib

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On 26 Oct 2015, at 14:35, Bruce Ravel wrote:

I am going to preface this comment, as I do with many about the Mac package, by reminding you that I do not own a Mac and do not have any personal experience running my own software on a Mac. The Mac package is graciously maintained by Joe Fowler, not because it is in his job description to do so, but because he is a good and helpful guy.

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_Problem 2:_ Initially I tried installing the “demeter” suit via ‘Terminal’ as specified in the site [http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/]. By writing a command on Terminal as opposed to with a disc image as in the case of Problem 1). My operating system at that time was Yosemite. All worked as explained on the website, even writing “athena” on a terminal window calls the program Athena. But that is just it, no explanation as how to call Artemis or Hephaestus exist on the site. So I am wondering if the installation procedure given on the site works also with the other two programs and if so, is there a way to open them or call them via ’Terminal'.

So .... do I understand this correctly? The program "Athena" is executed by typing "athena" at the command line and your question is about how to start "Artemis" or "Hephaestus"?

I would think that the answer was obvious, but perhaps one of the Mac users on the list could weight in.

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_Problem 3:_ My last problem was when Athena closed unexpectedly. As most programs, Athena had an auto recover option which opens when it is restarted. But this time the auto recover option always comes up and this option renders the whole program inactive; “Application Not Responding”. Every time I open Athena, “Auto recover” option comes up and Athena become unresponsive. I tried updating the software in hope of changing something but that did not change anything. Uninstalling it is also a problem because there were no files that I could find to uninstall from or delete. I could not find the location where terminal installed the “Demeter” suit. There is a way to delete on terminal by writing “Sudo rm-rf/file name” but that is not removing “demeter” either.

If you start Athena from the terminal, it should write error messages to the terminal when it runs into problems. This is explained in some detail here: http://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/pods/bugs.pod.html and here: http://bruceravel.github.com/demeter/pods/help.pod.html

A useful, actionable bug report would include those error messages, which tend to be a lot more helpful for me than this sort of narrative, which is hard for me to understand.

B

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