GUI interface<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n> follow link to GUI interface<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
The link is broken.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> copy and paste link but change it to be absolute rather than relative<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
You have now downloaded the Mac installer for the GUI interface.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> run installer<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
The installer only works on the latest version of OS X, with makemixmasher and X11 installed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> Google makemixmasher<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
makemixmasher is an OS X package manager package manager, for managing package manager packages.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> install makemixmasher<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
You follow the simple easy-to-understand makemixmasher installation procedure.<\/p>\r\n
Ninety-eight lines of cryptic status messages scroll past.<\/p>\r\n
The last line says \"Error: Directory not writeable.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> sudo install makemixmasher<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
(After entering superuser password.) You follow the simple easy-to-understand makemixmasher installation procedure.<\/p>\r\n
One hundred and two lines of cryptic status messages scroll past.<\/p>\r\n
There is an error message here.\r\n\r\n
> read error message<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
It says \"Installation failed. \/bin\/devel\/nemo\/whist\/boojum, line 528: cmd() requires two arguments, not one. Error not found.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n
> Google error message<\/b>\r\n\r\n
With quotation marks around it or without?\r\n\r\n
> with<\/b>\r\n\r\n
No pages found.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> without<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
What?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> Google error message without quotation marks<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
There are five Stack Overflow pages here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> read Stack Overflow pages<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
All of them describe error messages vaguely similar to yours but not quite the same.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> read answers<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
After half an hour of reading all of the proposed answers and painstakingly trying to follow their instructions, you have tried to install three other possibly-required systems with unusual names, but you have been unsuccessful at all of them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
None of the proposed answers seem likely to address your issue anyway.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
It's possible that the main problem is that you have multiple versions of Python installed on your system and you're using the wrong one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> examine Python installations<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
It's possible that the main problem is that you have multiple versions of Python installed on your system and you're using the wrong one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> how would I find out?<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
What?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> run Python command to check which versions are installed<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
There is an error message here.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> read error message<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
It says \"Stack trace: line overflow in \/usr\/share\/mimsy\/quetzalcoatl.py, line 32,768: unable to begin underflow processing. Please file a bug!\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> give up<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
What?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> quit<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
Would you indeed like to quit now?<\/p>\r\n\r\n
> y<\/b><\/p>\r\n\r\n
You have given up. Your score is 0 out of a total of 350 points, earning you the title of Rank Beginner. Come back and try again soon!<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nPostscript: I feel like I should explicitly note that I love open-source Linux-like software and I have a great deal of respect for the people who write it and who write instructions for using it, both of which I suspect are pretty thankless tasks. I suspect that the problems that I run into whenever I try to do this kind of thing are probably largely due to the vast number of different configurations that are out there; it's hard to write instructions and code that will really work everywhere. Some of the problems may also be due to my ignorance; there's obviously a lot that I don't know about this stuff.<\/p>\r\n
Postpostscript: Given how many difficult installation processes I've encountered lately, I think it's worth specially mentioning one good experience: I had an astonishingly painless and fast Drupal installation experience recently, after I figured out that I could use the in-browser setup tool rather than reading through all of the unfortunately-hard-to-navigate setup instructions on the Drupal site. During the Drupal installation process, I didn't have to install anything else as a prereq, and other than having to set some permissions to globally writeable, I encountered no significant setbacks or errors. Yay, Drupal!<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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