Unable to install Blendigo 2.2S on Snow Leopard

[IljaPanzer]

Hello there,
although my Indigo resides in my Applications folder in a folder called Indigo and my blender.app is in my Applications folder in a folder called Blender the installer does not finish the installations successfully:

After the different messages during installation it does the script-part of the installation near the end and then it terminates by saying

"Die Installation is fehlgeschlagen. Die Installation ist aufgrund eines Fehlers fehlgeschlagen. Wenden Sie sich an den Hersteller der Software."

which says that installation has gone wrong because of an error and I should consult the manufacturer of the software.

Looking forward to your quick help. Thanx in advance

[dougal2]

Hi, this is a known problem on some OSX systems. I'm working on a different method of installation which should prevent this.

For now this is what OSX users can do:

MANUAL INSTALLATION

1. Download the Linux installer package from the Blendigo download page.

2. Open it with Finder so that it gets extracted. You should end up with a folder called "blendigo-linux-2.2S" which contains install.sh and a folder "sources". Trash the install.sh file, it will not work on OSX.

3. Open up a Terminal window. (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)

4. Type the following commands:

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$ mkdir -p .blender/scripts
$ mkdir .indigo
$ cp -r {BLENDIGO_SOURCE_FOLDER}/blend* .blender/scripts/
$ echo "{INDIGO_APP}" > .indigo/location

There are two commands here which are not to be typed literally.
- Instead of typing {BLENDIGO_SOURCE_FOLDER}, drag and drop the "sources" folder from the Blendigo installer package on to the Terminal window.
The output will look something like:

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$ cp -r /Users/doug/Downloads/blendigo-linux-2.2S/sources/blend* .blender/scripts/

- Likewise with {INDIGO_APP} - drag and drop your Indigo application onto the Terminal window:

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$ echo "/Applications/Indigo/Indigo.app" > .indigo/location

The installation is complete, you should now be able to start blender and use Blendigo.


Please let me know if you have any trouble following these instructions.

[IljaPanzer]

Yippie, it's working!!! Thanx

PS: I had to remove the ./indigo folder that already existed (used Tinker Tool too see the hidden files)

[dougal2]

It doesn't matter if it already exists, the command given will overwrite the only file in there anyway.

[Stumpy]

I also have had troubles installing with Snow Leopard so I tried your method in terminal and when I executed the final command it said permission denied. I'm the only user and admin for this computer but it still gives me the message. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Neilson

[dougal2]

@stumpy

Make sure that you're executing the commands in your home folder. That part of the process is implicit, since the Terminal should start in that location by default.

If you're in any doubt, the following command should always return you to your home folder:

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$ cd

It is also possible that you ran the previous installer, which may have copied some files to your home folder with incorrect permissions. Before I recommend any action, perhaps you could check the file permissions on the relevant folder with these commands:

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$ ls -la .blender
$ ls -la .indigo

[Stumpy]

$ ls -la .blender
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 4 Neilson staff 136 8 Feb 22:26 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 21 Neilson staff 714 8 Feb 22:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 Neilson staff 163 8 Feb 22:26 Bpymenus
drwxr-xr-x 4 Neilson staff 136 8 Feb 22:25 scripts

$ ls -la .indigo
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root staff 102 4 Feb 23:38 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 21 Neilson staff 714 8 Feb 22:22 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 41 9 Feb 17:07 location

Here are the results, I tried installing it with the Indigo.app on my desktop to make sure everything was in my home folder but it still said permission denied. Also if this helps I tried installing a previous version of Blendigo and that installed successfully but went on to say "could not find indigo executable" when I tried to render in Blender.

[dougal2]

I can see it is because the previous installer created the .indigo folder with root (administrator) ownership.

You can do this to get rid of it:

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$ sudo rm -r .indigo

You will be asked for your password.

Then you can follow the manual instructions regarding the .indigo folder.


I'm sorry this has been a bit long-winded, but the previous installer was a piece of s***; we'll be looking at better solutions for the future.

[Stumpy]

Thanks, it worked great!