[Pythonmac-SIG] pygame binaries

[Robert Kern]

Mathew James Oakes wrote:
> unable to install pygame binaries on osx 10.3... get the following
> message from the pygame-1.7.0.mpkg installer:
> 
>     The Installer package "pygame-1.7.0"
>     cannot be opened.
> 
>     The InstallationCheck tool was either not executable or not readable.
> 
>     <OK>
> 
> 
> I've checked md5 is right, and even gone in and modified the permissions
> on /Contents/Resources/InstallationCheck to make it readable writable
> and executable.

It's an mpkg, so you need to do the same for all of the subpackages, too.

> has anone else had the same problem?

Yes, see the thread titled "ANN: pygame 1.7.0 for Mac OS X 10.3"

.zip files created by Python's ZipFile don't interact well with
unzip(1). bdist_mpkg got patched with a workaround, but apparently the
pygame installer .zip never got updated.

Unzipping with StuffIt Expander will set the appropriate permissions.

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