Nmap Development: Re: Testing packages for Zenmap on Mac OS X now available

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:45:05AM -0700, bensonk () acm wwu edu wrote:
> The installed nmap runs fine (but so did the one macports built for me,
> so that wasn't an issue).  Zenmap, however, claims to not know how to
> run on my architecture.  I captured a screenshot:
> http://acm.wwu.edu/~bensonk/zenmap_error.png
>
> I'm not sure what exactly is wrong, but I'm guessing it's just a typo or
> something silly in an XML config file.  
You may be right about that. What happens if you run

        /Applications/Zenmap.app/Contents/MacOS/zenmap

in a terminal?

I have a suspicion as to why this might be happening. If you look inside
Zenmap.app (control-click and select "Show Package Contents"), and "Get
Info" on the files in Contents/MacOS, you will see that "python" is a
"Unix Executable File (Universal)" while "zenmap" is just a "Unix
Executable File". ("zenmap.bin" is also a "Unix Executable File
(Universal)", but Finder shows it as a compressed archive because of its
extension.)

If you "Get Info" on Zenmap.app, you see that it's considered an
"Application", not an "Application (Universal)", perhaps because of the
supposedly non-universal "zenmap". "zenmap" is just a plain Python
script, no not architecture-dependent at all. I don't know why a G4 Mac
would assume it can't open it.

David Fifield

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