LINA on Mac
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[edit] Introduction
Over the next week, we will be testing a series of beta releases leading up to the official LINA 0.72 release. Any feedback you give us about your experience downloading, installing and running our beta versions of LINA will be of great use to us, and much appreciated.
[edit] Installation notes
In order for the installer to work, you must install the application wget. We will be removing this dependency in the next couple days. Instructions for installing this nifty command-line download tool are here.
[edit] Supported Versions
LINA 0.72 Beta02 is currently available only for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger on Intel.
We will support the PowerPC architecture and the 10.5 Leopard release in the coming weeks.
[edit] Download
First download the appropriate LINA installer to your desktop from our download page.
[edit] Installing LINA - the short version
Uncompress the zipped DMG file that you downloaded by double-clicking on it. Mount it by double-clicking on the result, and open the dmg by double-clicking on the opened image. Click through the resulting install screens, choosing defaults.
The LINA install will take some time as it downloads the ~100MB LINA runtime environment. The size of the download will be greatly reduced by the time of our next major release.
The install might appear to freeze at one point as it is setting up LINA. Please be patient with it, maybe get some coffee or something. This feature will be removed in the official 0.72 release.
Once LINA is installed, you are ready to install a LINA application.
[edit] Installing LINA - the details
Here we will walk you through the process of installing LINA on Mac OS X using the LINA installer you downloaded. Thank you for helping us test this beta version of LINA -- your feedback is greatly appreciated.
To begin, uncompress the zipped DMG that you downloaded by double-clicking on it. Then mount it by double-clicking on the result, and open the dmg by double-clicking on the opened image. You should then see the following:
Double-click on Lina.pkg and a message will pop up:
Click "Continue" and the installer Welcome page will appear:
Click "Next" to go to the license page.
Click "Continue" and "Accept" the license to select the destination of the install.
The Installation Type page will then appear. Click "Install" or "Upgrade" to start the install.
The LINA install should go fairly quickly since it is installing local host files. When it is finished, the download page will appear:
Click on the "Download" button to begin the download. When the download is finished, click "Continue."
The LINA install will take some time because it downloads the ~100MB LINA runtime environment. We will make this download much shorter before the 0.90 release.
LINA is now installed. Click "Finish" to finish the install.
Once LINA is installed, you are ready to install a LINA application.
[edit] Uninstalling LINA
Removing the /usr/lina and /opt/lina directories will remove LINA and all of its apps. Here is how to do it from a Terminal session: sudo rm -rf /usr/lina sudo rm -rf /opt/lina
[edit] Giving us feedback
Thank you for helping us test this beta release. It helps us immensely to know that LINA and LINA applications can be installed on machines in the wild.
If you encountered any errors during your install, please post them on the Open LINA forum located at www.openlina.org/forum/ or to the Open LINA mailing list located at [www.openlina.org/mailman/listinfo/lina-dev/].
If something fails to work, we would greatly appreciate receiving your the lina.log file located on your computer in the /usr/lina/log/ directory.
