[Therion] having trouble, first time user

[Wookey]

+++ Robert Countess [2015-04-18 12:25 -0700]:
> Im using Mac OSX10.9. followed MacOSX installation instructions on wiki
> 

> Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Rob$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://
> raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

[lots of dependency/package building]

> 🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/therion/5.3.16: 6 files, 4.4M, built in 50 seconds
> Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Rob$ xtherionxtherion
> -bash: xtherionxtherion: command not found
> Roberts-MacBook-Pro:~ Rob$ xtherion

This is exactly the reason that 20 years ago binary linux
distributions were invented, to replace the previous painful process
of users downloading code and tools and dependencies and building
them all until they got some software working. 'brew' attempts to
automate this process but there are still a lot of ways it can go
wrong.

Do Mac people not have a proper packaging system someone could make
therion packages for?

> _____________________________________________________
> 
> A program named WISH opened and window named therion compiler. The Status bar
> at the bottom read “User interface is not active. To activate it open and
> existing file or create a new one."
>  When I try to open a file with either the Wish file|open or the folder button
> I am unable to open any files in the Demo data set - they are all grey and
> cannot be selected.
> 
> I am a first time user. Previously used On Station and the Walls. I had data
> for 3 major caving areas in Walls totalling about 50 km of cave. I want to
> switch it all to Therion but if I can’t get the program to work then I’ll have
> to stick with Walls.

I'm sure we can get you going. We do have several mac users here, but
I'm not one so can't really provide much help.

Can you get a command prompt? Can you run 'xtherion' from there?
That's the user interface for drawing stuff up. 

'therion' is the compiler tool that processes the data. What happens
if you run 'therion -v version'? Does that print out a version? or
'therion --print-init-file'?

If you can convert some of your (centreline) data (just using a text
editor) you should be able process it using just 'therion'.

You will need xtherion in order to draw up cave sections.

Has anyone written a walls to therion conversion tool? I'm not aware of
one.

Wookey
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