OS 10.6.3 and LAME .dmg installation bug

[avallec]

I believe there is a bug in the installer for LAME when doing it under OS 10.6.3 from the .dmg package.

The installer says that it completed the installation successfully but the file simply disappears. I checked the content of the /usr/ folder from Terminal and there is nothing associated with LAME anywhere in it.

Here's what I did to circumvent the problem and get the mp3 dylib installed:

Downloaded the libmp3lame-osx-universal-3.97.zip file (even though it says that it's for an earlier OS version).

Unzipped it

In the folder that opens up, found the "libmp3lame.dylib" file in path: /package/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.dylib

Relocated the libmp3lame.dylib file to my desktop

From there I was able to direct the application to the correct location for the file using the File/Export browser (my desktop) and install it.

No response to this post is needed unless what I did to circumvent the problem will cause my machine to irreparably smoke itself. Just a note to the developers to review for a possible bug, and anyone else that might benefit from this experience.

Thank you for developing this apparently great product (comment based on my incomplete trial basis at this point), and as Freeware!!!

[billw58]

The DMG installer should install LAME into /usr/local/lib/audacity/ . Did you look there? You can get there in the Finder by using the Go > Go to Folder menu item.

-- Bill

[avallec]

Bill,

The .dylib file is now in the /usr/local/lib/audacity ƒ, but not from the .dmg installer, got there from the zip file as I explained. Just ocurred to me that maybe my problem with the .dmg installer is that I was trying to install it from an account that does not have admin privileges. However, the installer goes through all the motions and reports that it installed it correctly. After doing that I tested the mp3 export and it reported that the file was not installed, that's when I checked from Terminal and did not find the file nor the folders. If I have time a little later to check my hypothesis (that it can't install from a non-admin account, even if you submit an admin name and password in the prompt windows), I will delete the file and folder and try installing again from the .dmg but with full admin privileges. If you try to find the folders from a non-admin account even after it is installed it won't let you because of insufficient privileges. That may be just a matter of changing the permissions from an admin account, but a regular user would not see it, and may not even be able to use it (execute) even if the file and folders do exist. Maybe running disk utility and fixing permissions would help, I'm not versed enough in the workings of that utility to know. In any case, I may have stumbled upon something that most user probably would not because most people run their machines from an admin account. I have never thought it prudent to do that. Or maybe the bug is in my head, that's a real possibility too! Anyway, got it working now so I'm happy. Thanks for the reply!

[kozikowski]

I did bother me that Audacity will install without Admin Privileges, but not the lame plugin. Only in my case, it worked.

Koz

[Gale Andrews]

If the dmg says the files installed they probably did. Unless you were showing hidden files and folders, you won't see them.

If you had permissions problems (quite frequently reported on 10.6.4), usr/local/lib may be read-locked in which case Audacity will report that it can't find the dylib file. I didn't quite follow the part about the zip having the dylib file in the path: /package/usr/local/lib/libmp3lame.dylib.



Gale