how about some help. downloaded the file with the .gz extension, stuffit expander does nothing with it....using a terminal window and dragging the .gz file into it to process leaves me with an unusable file. what is the correct syntax?

Can't remember the command on mac.
Also - some browsers tend to unpack it automatically but forget to rename the file and set executable permisssions. Please check if that is the case.

I just used Stuffit (Deluxe) to uncompress the archive. I then just double clicked the resulting file. This opened a new terminal window and launched the new application. All then appeared to work fine. Used Safari to download and am running OSX 10.3.4.

> I just used Stuffit (Deluxe) to uncompress the archive. I then just double
> clicked the resulting file. This opened a new terminal window and launched
> the new application. All then appeared to work fine. Used Safari to download
> and am running OSX 10.3.4.
>
>
Stuffit Expander managed to expand the .gz file. However I'm left with a file on the desktop called "boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin" that won't execute. Whenever I try to double click it, Stuffit Expander runs instead and does not recognize this file as compressed (no surprise).

Now what?

> Stuffit Expander managed to expand the .gz file. However I'm left with a file
> on the desktop called "boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin" that won't execute.
> Whenever I try to double click it, Stuffit Expander runs instead and does not
> recognize this file as compressed (no surprise).
>
> Now what?

Now make it executable. If you can open a terminal and navigate to the directory, execute a "chmod +x boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin" and you should be able to run boinc.

I'll bet you can do the Mac version of right clicking on the file, though, and just check a box somewhere to make it executable....

Rob

> Now make it executable. If you can open a terminal and navigate to the
> directory, execute a "chmod +x boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin" and you should
> be able to run boinc.
>
> I'll bet you can do the Mac version of right clicking on the file, though, and
> just check a box somewhere to make it executable....
>
> Rob
>
>
1) Tried the chmod. The file still doesn't execute anything.

2) I couldn't find anything in File/Get Info to make it executable.

Any Mac users in the support area?

You MUST upgrade to StuffIt Expander 8.03 for this to expand properly.

Now I get:
[localhost:~/setiathome] kevin% chmod +x boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin
[localhost:~/setiathome] kevin% ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin
dyld: ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin Undefined symbols:
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _btowc expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _iswctype expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _mbsrtowcs expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towlower expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towupper expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcscoll expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcsftime expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcslen expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libTrace/BPT trap
[localhost:~/setiathome] kevin%

> You MUST upgrade to StuffIt Expander 8.03 for this to expand properly.
>
> Now I get:
> [localhost:~/setiathome] kevin% chmod +x boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin
> [localhost:~/setiathome] kevin% ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin
> dyld: ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin Undefined symbols:
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _btowc expected to be
> defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _iswctype expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _mbsrtowcs expected
> to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towlower expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towupper expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcscoll expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcsftime expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> ./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _wcslen expected to
> be defined in /usr/lib/libTrace/BPT trap
> [localhost:~/setiathome] kevin%
>
>
>

OK -- it appears that BOINC does NOT work on OS X 10.2.8! Lovely.

> You MUST upgrade to StuffIt Expander 8.03 for this to expand properly.

I checked out Alladin's Stuffit web site. All they have available for download is 8.0.2

> OK -- it appears that BOINC does NOT work on OS X 10.2.8! Lovely.

I have had a similar problem whereby no matter which way I expand the gzip (stuffit, gzip etc) I seem to get some sort of dependency error in 10.2.8 of the sort:
"./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towlower expected to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib"

I was hoping for some sort of workaround or fix as I would like to get the BOINC client replacing the classic client sometime soon.... I should point out that I am not a beta tester, this is in the released client....

> All they have available for download is 8.0.2
>
You are correct -- must have slipped on the keyboard. Sorry.

> > OK -- it appears that BOINC does NOT work on OS X 10.2.8! Lovely.
>
> I have had a similar problem whereby no matter which way I expand the gzip
> (stuffit, gzip etc) I seem to get some sort of dependency error in 10.2.8 of
> the sort:
> "./boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin undefined reference to _towlower expected
> to be defined in /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib"
>

There are several threads in "Macintosh" discussing errors you note above. The consensus seems to be that BOINC has not been tested to run on anything less than OS 10.3.

On the command line, cd to the location of your downloaded file, typically this will be like this:
cd ~/Desktop

Then, type gunzip followed by the filename. Hit Return.

Then type chmod u+x followed by the filename. Hit Return. Then type ./whateverthefilenameis followed by Return.

STUCK!!! I think the problem for many people, including experienced Mac users like myself who are not programmers, will be the step using the terminal utility. We're just not familiar with it. I played around with the chmod command for a while, but the "boinc_3.18_powerpc-apple-darwin" is still sitting on my desktop, completely unusable. Please email me when a fix is ready.

nicholascanagram@hotmail.com

LOL. Never used a MAC in my life and it took me 20 minutes to figure out how to run it on a G4 Cube. I know a bit of UNIX, which helped.

1) Unzip it.

2) Create a SETI folder somewhere, I did it at the top most level directory.

3) Move the unziped file (with no icon) to that SETI folder

4) launch terminal

5) if you put it in the \SETI folder off the top level directory, TYPE: CD \SETI in the terminal, hit RETURN

6) type chmod +x boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin (note: I loaded 3.20)

7) then TYPE: ./boinc_3.20_powerpc-apple-darwin


Hope this helps

>
> OK -- it appears that BOINC does NOT work on OS X 10.2.8! Lovely.
>
>

I'm running into the same thing- that and also Stuffit 8.02 not being able to uncompress it. Anyone else figure out what the problem might be? Or is BOINC just not compatible with anything under OS X 10.3?