Problem installing Kerberos

[Alexandra Ellwood]

On Nov 6, 2006, at 9:41 PM, Shilo McDonald wrote:

> Hi there,
> 	I just downloaded Mac OS X Kerberos Extras installer version 8.4.
> 	When I double-click the installer file, I am greeted with the
> following error:
>
> Application Launch Failure
> The application "Mac OS X Kerberos Extras" could not be launched
> because of a shared library error: "9<BaseInstaller
> Carbon><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_CommonPanels><>"
>
> 	I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.8 on a 2.0 GHz iMac G5 w/1 GB of RAM + 42
> GB free on HD.
>


Is this the Mac OS X Kerberos Extras Installer from MIT or a Kerberos  
Extras installer provided by another organization?  MIT provides  
installer sources so that other sites can build their own installer.   
If you obtained your installer from somewhere other than MIT you will  
need to contact them for more help.

Regardless, the reason the Kerberos Extras VISE installer is failing  
to launch is because it can't find your CFM (Code Fragment Manager)  
libraries.   CFM is a library format used by applications which were  
ported from Mac OS 9, including the version of Installer VISE used to  
create the Kerberos Extras installer.  Apple provides CFM libraries  
for Mac OS X in /System/Library/CFMSupport.  Most likely either the  
Kerberos Extras Installer application or the libraries in your / 
System/Library/CFMSupport are corrupted.  You might try verifying  
disk permissions with Disk Utility or copying the CFMSupport folder  
from another Macintosh.

Note that you do not need the Kerberos Extras to use Kerberos.  The  
Kerberos libraries, applications and tools are included in Mac OS X  
10.4.8.  The Kerberos Extras installer just provides a few components  
not provided by Apple:

* An MIT Kerberos configuration file for Kerberos (/Library/ 
Preferences/edu.mit.Kerberos)
* A symlink from /System/Library/CoreServices/Kerberos to / 
Applications/Utilities/Kerberos
* Kerberos CFM shim libraries for older applications that use Kerberos


Hope this helps,

--lxs

Alexandra Ellwood <lxs at mit.edu>
MIT Kerberos Development Team
<http://mit.edu/lxs/www>