Ventrilo Tech Support  

Go Back   Ventrilo Tech Support > Main Category > Macintosh Client

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 10-31-2011, 09:52 PM   #1
madogre
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 1
Default Can't open the .pkg file help please

com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.) I can't even open the .pkg. I have tried 3 different programs, installer.app, Flat Package editor.app, and Pacifist. The title is the error I get with installer.app. Pacificist says the BOM file does not exist or has been renamed. "The document “ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg” could not be opened" is the error message for Flat Package Editor.app.

I am running Mac OS X version 10.5.8. I have repaired all my permissions and run software update. Please help. Thank you.
madogre is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-01-2011, 04:17 PM   #2
Prog-Rocker
just tryin to help
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Local Space/Time Continuum
Posts: 23,460
Default

did you download it using a download manager?

do you have a firewall/virus/spyware app running?

if yes to either then try disabling them.
Prog-Rocker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-13-2011, 12:23 AM   #3
kalyndra
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 1
Default

I have also just been trying to get the package to open on Mac... seems to unzip all fine but then comes up with the same error as the OP.

I don't have any software antivirus or firewall on my mac.
kalyndra is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-14-2011, 09:15 PM   #4
Jaycyn
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Florida
Posts: 313
Default

Try using Disk Utility and Repairing Permissions.
Jaycyn is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-30-2011, 06:25 PM   #5
DjDCH
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 1
Default Solution fix the error message and get Ventrilo updated.

Quote:
Originally Posted by madogre View Post
com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.) I can't even open the .pkg. I have tried 3 different programs, installer.app, Flat Package editor.app, and Pacifist. The title is the error I get with installer.app. Pacificist says the BOM file does not exist or has been renamed. "The document “ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg” could not be opened" is the error message for Flat Package Editor.app.

I am running Mac OS X version 10.5.8. I have repaired all my permissions and run software update. Please help. Thank you.
I got the same error message one month ago when the update was released. I had not the time to look into the issue and I don't use Ventrilo very often, so I just ignore the update available notice. I re-open my Ventrilo today, get the same update notice, try to update again, with unfortunately the same result. Then I find this thread with no effective solution.

So, I tried to understand the actual issue and resolved it by myself. I have opened my terminal to get the actual content of the pkg file. It at this point that I have found an other pkg file (mpkg in fact) inside the pkg. Therefore, I have extracted the mpkg file from the pkg and try to execute it, with success!

With more research, I have find out that the issue was my unzip application (Zipeg) and not the Ventrilo packaging itself. Each time Zipeg extract a zip, it create a directory called by the name of the zip file (without the .zip extension) and then put the zip content in it. Since the zip file is called ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg.zip, the directory is called ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg. So, OS X see this directory as a pkg file and try to execute it. That is our real issue.

How to upgrade/install Ventrilo to the latest version (3.0.13)

1. Delete all the Ventrilo package file, extract or not, that you might have already downloaded.
2. Download the latest version of Ventrilo with your web browser.
3. Open a new Terminal window.
4. Go where you have downloaded the file, usually the Download directory.
Code:
cd ~/Downloads/
5. Unzip the zipped file.
Code:
unzip ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg.zip
6. Close the Terminal window and open a Finder window.
7. Go where you have downloaded and extracted the file, usually the Download directory.
8. Try to execute the VentriloClient.mpkg file.
9. Enjoy!

Tell me if this short how-to have solved your issue.

DjDCH
DjDCH is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 12-01-2011, 10:37 AM   #6
Prog-Rocker
just tryin to help
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Local Space/Time Continuum
Posts: 23,460
Default

@DjDCH

Thanks much for your troubleshooting effort.
Prog-Rocker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-09-2014, 11:30 AM   #7
Prog-Rocker
just tryin to help
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Local Space/Time Continuum
Posts: 23,460
Default

another setting to check:

in the system preferences > security > general section, try setting the 'allow apps downloaded from' to 'anywhere'

and don't forget to set it back after testing.
Prog-Rocker is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 06-24-2014, 06:43 AM   #8
LandsGrieco
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: ohio
Posts: 1
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by madogre View Post
com.apple.installer.pagecontroller error -1.) I can't even open the .pkg. I have tried 3 different programs, installer.app, Flat Package editor.app, and Pacifist. The title is the error I get with installer.app. Pacificist says the BOM file does not exist or has been renamed. "The document “ventrilo-3.0.13-Darwin-universal.pkg” could not be opened" is the error message for Flat Package Editor.app.

I am running Mac OS X version 10.5.8. I have repaired all my permissions and run software update. Please help. Thank you.

i have the same problem anyone pls help

Last edited by Prog-Rocker; 06-24-2014 at 06:58 AM.
LandsGrieco is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-14-2014, 12:37 PM   #9
junaedy
Junior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 1
Default

Oh no, please tell me @ xxx how to fix this problem

Last edited by Prog-Rocker; 09-14-2014 at 11:56 PM.
junaedy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 09-19-2014, 01:28 PM   #10
Jaycyn
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Florida
Posts: 313
Default

Not sure what the above post means, but in general, you should be running at least 10.6 Snow Leopard (and later if possible as the updates are all free from the app store).

Remove any 'unzip' type applications as you don't need them, 'zipping' and 'unzipping' (aka compression) is built into the OS via an app called Archive Utility (there are certain situations where specialized apps may be useful for compression but not day-to-day).

If you are running 10.5.x at this point, a lot of the newer software installers will give you package errors, which is a result of app certificate problems. The fix is... 10.6 or later.
Jaycyn is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:16 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2023, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.