Golly cannot start on OS X 10.9.2

[alphonse23]

When I try starting golly from the commandline, I get this error:

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$ ./Golly
dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python
  Referenced from: /Users/Sean/Downloads/golly-2.7b3-mac109/Golly.app/Contents/MacOS/./Golly
  Reason: no suitable image found.  Did find:
	/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
	/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
	/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python: no matching architecture in universal wrapper
Trace/BPT trap: 5

Something to do with python it would seem.

[Andrew]

What sort of shell are you using? If I try that command on my 10.9.4 system I get this error:

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$ ./Golly
-bash: ./Golly: No such file or directory

Maybe try "open Golly.app". That works for me.

Also, does your system have Python 2.7? Try this command:

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$ python --version
Python 2.7.5

Finally, are you sure your Mac is running 10.9.x? The error "no suitable image found" is what I'd expect if you try running golly-2.7b3-mac109 on 10.8 or older.

[alphonse23]

This is how I'm running it.

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$ cd /golly-2.7b3-mac109/Golly.app/Contents/MacOS
$ ./Golly

To get that error message, I run that from the shell -- oh I'm using bash by the way.

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$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

And I'm running OS X version 10.9.2.

Python is 2.7:

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$ python --version
Python 2.7

I do have Python 3, but it runs under alias python3.

When I run from Finder, I get that error in the other thread like this one: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1226

I tried the perl thing:

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install_name_tool -change /System/Library/Perl/lib/5.10/libperl.dylib /System/Library/Perl/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/libperl.dylib Golly.app/Contents/MacOS/Golly

the script runs without error, but doesn't fix anything.

I think this is a python error.

Thanks Andrew -- this looks like a mighty nice community. Conway's game of life is so fascinating.

[Andrew]

All I can suggest is updating your system to 10.9.4 and hope it fixes your Python installation. Golly definitely runs fine on 10.9.4, and there's no need to use install_name_tool.

[alphonse23]

Thanks Andrew that worked. After like waiting 5-6 hours my OS has been updated -- to 10.10.3 Yosemite. At first I thought that might have been a mistake, but I can run Golly now. THANKS!

Golly is so awesome!