<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A recent question about installing esp-r on OSX....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">As a novice Unix user, I have struggled a bit to install esp-r [in OS X]. I have followed the instuctions on the website to the T, however I am consistently getting this message mid-way through the installation process (and it aborts the process):</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13.3px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Please wait while the installer performs cleanup...ls: /opt/esru/esp-r/bin: No such file or directory</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13.3px/normal Tahoma; min-height: 16px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Having given the sudo command, I would have expected the installer to create any necessary folder structure automatically. I suspect this is a Unix issue more than an esp-r issue, however if anyone could give me a pointer, I'd really appreciate it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Currently the Installer assumes that a folder /opt/esru exists prior to running the</DIV><DIV>script and if it finds this folder is will attempt to create a number of subfolders</DIV><DIV>under /opt/esru. If if cannot create some of the folders is should give you a</DIV><DIV>warning. Clearly in your case it does not.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Not everyone will use sudo to invoke the Installer and for that reason the Installer</DIV><DIV>does not assume that it can create either /opt or /opt/esru. On some OSX </DIV><DIV>machines /opt does not exist. Looks like we need to update the instructions</DIV><DIV>to clarify this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One thing to check on your machine is whether there is actually a folder</DIV><DIV>named /opt/esru/esp-r/bin If there is not such folder then that is what</DIV><DIV>is causing the failure. The Install script is a text file so you can look inside</DIV><DIV>of it for 'mkdir' commands and invoke those commands manually.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Note: /opt/esru is only the default location, you could install esp-r</DIV><DIV>somewhere else. And if you choose some other location it is</DIV><DIV>best not to have any spaces in the folder names.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-ESRU</DIV></BODY></HTML>