Installing Valentina

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 8/4/14, 4:03 PM, "william humphrey" <bill at bluewatermaritime.com> wrote:

> It would be cool if you could give it permission to overwrite the
> files as part of installation and save a step.

You mean us?

Second step is required by rules of LiveCode.
Our installer do not know location of that folders.


> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 5:08 PM, -=>JB<=- <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>>> I finally got it working.  The answer to my
>>> question about what name to use is
>>> 
>>> Valentina4,v4rev.bundle
>> 
>> Whilst this is correct
>> 
>>> This needs to be manually added
>>> to the externals.txt file in the
>>> database externals folders and
>>> the Runtime externals folder.
>> 
>> This is incorrect.
>> 
>> I've just gone through the process to test, removed all the Valentina
>> files (Step 2 in my procedure mentioned in my earlier post) then ran
>> the 'install.rev' LiveCode Stack that is required as Step 2 as
>> mentioned by Ruslan and the online install procedure. After clicking
>> the Install button the output states:
>> 
>> Externals list updated successfully.
>> 
>> Twice, once for the database externals folder and again for the
>> Runtime externals folder. I then opened my lastest LC + Val stack and
>> it worked, so the install was successful.
>> 
>> When I check both newly created Externals.txt files they contain the
>> text you specify, so there is no need to manually do it, the
>> install.rev stack does it for you.
>> 
>> I'm on OS X 10.9.4, but it's worked this way for quite a few years
>> over many versions of OS X and Valentina.

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Best regards,

Ruslan Zasukhin
VP Engineering and New Technology
Paradigma Software, Inc

Valentina - Joining Worlds of Information
http://www.paradigmasoft.com

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