[Ipe-discuss] Re: locating IPE after installation with MacPorts

Niels niels at b-lex.nl
Wed Jul 6 13:14:28 CEST 2011


Hi Mark,

You're probably running the wrong executable.
Go into your terminal and type: 'which ipe'. This should tell you the 
location of the ipe binary that is started when you run it from the 
terminal. Use that one.

Regards,
Niels.

> Thanks so much for your help.  Your suggestion worked, after some digging I
> found it in
>
> /opt/local/var/macports/software/ipe/7.0.14_0/opt/local/bin/ipe
>
> This is my first time using the terminal, so I appreciate the help.
>
> I also followed your suggestion to try using Platypus to create a clickable icon
> to link to the application.  I wrote a one line script for Platypus to call up
> Ipe.  I was able to get the icon to work, except that when I run Ipe from this
> link when I try to run LaTex (Command-L) I get a message:
>
> An error occurred during the Pdflatex run.
> There was an error trying to run Pdflatex.
>
> When I call Ipe directly from the terminal I have no such problems and LaTex
> works fine.
>
> Anyways the program is great, and if I have to open up the terminal to run it it
> is well worth it.  Thanks again.
>
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