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tcpms

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Oct 26, 2011
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I'm using Xcode 4.2(PackageMaker) on Lion to deploy my software.

I've specified the install destination as the 'User Home Directory'.

I want to put an alias to the application file in the package onto the desktop.

In the 'Product Package Actions Pane' I created a 'Post Install Action' to create an alias.

For the alias, I 'point to' a 'component' and select the application file for the alias.

I've tried various 'alias paths', but when I build and run the installer, I get no errors, the files install correctly, and I can't find an alias for the application file anywhere on my computer.

How does this (or should this) feature work? What would the alias path look like? I tried relative addressing but that didn't work. Neither did direct addressing. Again, no indication of an error, but no alias either.
 
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