Deadline 5.2 says it can’t be installed because X11 is not installed. The Mac OS 10.8 no longer comes with X11 but users are told to use XQuartz as an alternative. I installed Mono 2.6.7 and XQuartz 2.7.3. Does Deadline 5.2 work on Mac OS 10.8?
Best regards,
Jeff Wood
jeff@woodinternet.us
So, answer is both yes and no.
Deadline works just fine using XQuartz and that jazz on 10.8. The problem we didn’t consider is that XQuartz doesn’t install into “/Applications/Utilities/X11.app”, so the installer check we do fails, and we made that fatal instead of a dire warning.
To make the installer go through with it’s work, you’ll need to make a folder there. So, before installing, open a terminal and type the following:
mkdir /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
Then when you’re done, clean it up
rm -r /Applications/Utilities/X11.app
That should work around the installer bug.