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How to Install Bazaar Explorer on the Mac

Asked by NyRy on 2010-02-01

It took me a while to figure this out. Hope it helps someone along the way. Feel free to edit if you like.

Install Bazaar Explorer for Mac

  a. Install Bazaar for Mac
    i. http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/MacOSXDownloads
      1. Install Bazaar-desktop 2.0.1 (use the package installer)
      2. Install PyQt4.6 (use the package installer)
  b. Set up Bazaar
    i. bzr whoami "Your Name <your email address>"
  c. Install Xcode (use the package installer)
    i. http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html
  d. Install QT (use the package installer)
    i. http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/sdk-mac-os-cpp
  e. Install SIP
    i. http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download
      1. Extract anywhere
      2. Enter the directory via your terminal and run:
        a. python configure.py -d /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages
        b. make
        c. make install
  f. Install QBzr
    i. Download Tarball
      1. http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/QBzr
    ii. Place in plug-ins Bazaar director
      1. /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins
  g. Change to the directory holding your plugins (normally ~/.bazaar/plugins)
    i. Download the latest version of Explorer and run:
      1. bzr branch lp:bzr-explorer explorer
  h. To start explorer, run:
    i. bzr explorer

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2011-06-10
Neil Martinsen-Burrell (nmb) said : #1

Thanks for this. It seems a bit more complicated than we would like, but there are some steps that should be able to be skipped (PyQt should be in the desktop package, ditto for qbzr and bzr-explorer). Our goal is for it to be 1. Install Qt. 2. Install the latest bzr desktop package.

curious (curiouslearn) said : #2

This does not work. I tried installing explorer using this method. I get the following error:

Permission denied (publickey).
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.

curious (curiouslearn) said : #3

This does not work. I tried installing explorer using this method. I get the following error:

Permission denied (publickey).
bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.

Martin Pool (mbp) said : #4

Hi, so if you're having trouble running

 bzr branch lp:explorer

and getting "permission denied" then probably you have told bzr to use SSH authentication against Launchpad, but you haven't added that SSH key to your Launchpad account. Click your name in the top-right corner, then upload the .pub file from ~/.ssh/

Gordon Tyler (doxxx) said : #5

You should try the Mac installer for 2.1.0. It includes Qt, PyQt, Explorer. It should work out of the box.

Peter Bex (peter-bex) said : #6

But that's only available for Snow Leopard

Gordon Tyler (doxxx) said : #7

Yes, unfortunately that's all I have available to me for building the installer.

Zach Wick (zach-wick) said : #8

As we speak, I am installing/config-ing Bazaar Explorer from a clean install of the latest Mac OS X Lion Developer Preview - so far everything seems to work just fine. I tried the Mac Installer for v. 2.1.0 but that did not work, so I am doing all of the installations from terminal. I will post my steps somewhere once it finishes and I can verify that it runs.

Gordon Tyler (doxxx) said : #9

Can you tell me why the installer didn't work? There should also be a more recent version of the installer for bzr 2.3.0.

JC Hulce (soaringsky) said : #10

The recommended, easy way to do this is here: http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/MacOSXDownloads
It automatically installs everything needed, including Qt, bzr, sip, qbzr, bzr-explorer, and all other tools.

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