Install in users home directory (Q&A) – Script error

[opus-nbonenberger]

I am using Packager 1.2.9 and macOS Catalina.

I followed instructions here http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/Q&A_3.html for creating a package that installs files to the Application Support folder of the user.

I also did the workaround for incorrect detection of the user domain. I created the wrapper package and used the adjusted post-installation script but the final wrapper package installation fails, stating there is a script error. I only found this line in the console log:

May 20 16:07:15 mac-32 com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.xpc.launchd.domain.pid.installer.17143): Failed to bootstrap path: path = /usr/sbin/installer, error = 2: No such file or directory

I don't know if this is the error, nor do I know how to prevent it. @packagesdev can you assist? Is the error in your script?

[packagesdev]

First thing to check would be that the error message is actually correct.

in the Terminal application, check the result of:

ls -l /usr/sbin/installer

If installer is not located in /usr/sbin, this is something new. You can find the location of installer on your system with the following command:

which installer

[opus-nbonenberger]

@packagesdev

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 95760 22 Sep 2020 /usr/sbin/installer

mac-32:~ user$ which installer
/usr/sbin/installer

[DavidJameson]

Anybody know how to install files under the the user's "Documents" folder?

[packagesdev]

See the Q&A : http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/resources.html

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Le 5 mars 2022 à 21:17, David Jameson @.***> a écrit :

 Anybody know how to install files under the the user's "Documents" folder?

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[DavidJameson]

Yeah, thanks - I had already figured out I could do it through a post install script but I was surprised that there was no notion of a “shadow” target user under the /Users folder.

I would have envisioned the following: (see image)

1. There exists a folder called [~] (say) under /Users, representing the user’s home folder of the target computer
2. Files and folders can be dropped there just like anywhere else
3. I don’t quite understand why the installer can’t just put files in the user’s home folder directly but given that constraint, the installer could put those files/folders in /tmp and then execute an automatically included shell script to move that stuff from temp to “~"

One less script that developer needs to create

On Mar 5, 2022, at 6:44 PM, packagesdev @.***> wrote:

See the Q&A : http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/resources.html

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Le 5 mars 2022 à 21:17, David Jameson @.***> a écrit :

 Anybody know how to install files under the the user's "Documents" folder?

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