[chuck-users] Question re: installing ChucK on Mac

[Stefan Blixt]

I'm not running ChucK with root privileges to my knowledge. Sound and UDP
communication shouldn't require root access.

/Stefan

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:

> On 5 Aug 2010, at 21:52, Stefan Blixt wrote:
>
>  I run chuck from the command line without having followed those
>> instructions - I didn't do any of that dangerous sudo stuff, I just added
>> the place where I put the chuck binary in my path by editing .profile.
>>
>
> Even that might be too complicated to those that do not know about Unix
> stuff. But one can put in the directory where the file is, and run it using
> './chuck <file>'. On a Mac, one can put it into /Applications/ and run it
> with /Applications/chuck.
>
> But I suspect that some things won't work properly without root permissions
> - probably Internet stuff.
>
>
>  Having said that, it's definitely not an easier way to do it. Couldn't
>> there have been a better installer for chuck that does all of this
>> automatically, just requiring the user to enter a password at the proper
>> time? Saying "enter password" instead of "now we're going to modify your
>> terminal" feels more... diplomatic.
>>
>
> That would be better.
>
>
>  It's curious, I've gotten so used to roaming around unix systems, doing
>> all kinds of crazy stuff. It's good to be reminded now and then that opening
>> .profile with vi (.profile isn't visible in Finder), and adding stuff to the
>> PATH variable isn't a very obvious thing to do.
>>
>
> Fink also adds a line to .profile, if it is not already in the search path.
>
>
>  Thinking about how MacOS got slammed on top of FreeBSD still cracks me up.
>>
>
> That was how it began, but now it is certified UNIX. BSD is not. So it has
> departed considerably.
>
>
>  Perfectly logical, but oh how confusing when you come from a Unix
>> background.
>>
>
>
> What is confusing?
>
>
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