Installer Not Responding

[Masquerave]

Hello all,

Terribly sorry if this has been posted a billion times before, but the forums are huge and I'm running out of time today and would like this issue to be resolved ASAP.

I'm trying to install a program called Ventrilo on my mac (V 10.4.11) straight from the website (www.ventrilo.com). I can download the OSX file to my desktop using Safari or Firefox, but once it gets there and unzips (unpacks, whathaveyou), Installer pops up, bounces a bit, then instantly closes.

I have no idea what's going on, so any help is more than appreciated.

Thank you for your time,
~Masque

 

[mad jew]

Is it the client or the server? What sort of Mac do you have?

 

[Masquerave]

Whoops!

Sorry to not have included that information!


I'm running an iMac build 8S2167,

2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor
1GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM memory

I'm attempting to install the client software.


Again, sorry for not including this sooner. Thanks for the help!

 

[mad jew]

No need to apologise mate.

Press CONTROL and click on the download. What does it say is being used to open it?

 

[Masquerave]

Installer is the default program used to open the unzipped pkg file.

 

[mad jew]

...And is it in your Utilities folder, or has it been moved?

 

[Masquerave]

Yep, it's still there!

 

[mad jew]

Weird. If you create a new user account in System Preferences, does the installer work there?

 

[Masquerave]

Nosir, the problem is the exact same if I install and download it on another account.

 

[mad jew]

Damn. Do you have any other packages you can test Installer with?

 

[Masquerave]

I don't...

Could you point me to a quick download to try out?

 

[mad jew]

There are many that come as part of the system. Just run a search for PKG and see what comes up. Don't actually install the item, but check to see if Installer opens correctly.

 

[Masquerave]

Hmm.

Very interesting! Installer doesn't work, period.

Same results if I search for a PKG file and try to open it, Installer will open very briefly then immediately close. Looks like That's the real issue, I'm going to try to re-download and install installer.

 

[Masquerave]

Trying to update Installer has failed, as Installer is not functioning. Dunno what I was thinking.

A long time ago, I managed to uninstall iChat. I did some snooping and found that one of the only ways to get it back was to use my system disks. Is that the solution here?

 

[mad jew]

Yeah, and you may need Pacifist to find and extract it. Best of luck!