I am wondering how to start an application after installation with PackageMaker. I am receiving tons of emails from my users asking me why the app does not start automatically.
Thanks in advance for your help,
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Use the -b option and give the applications bundle identifcation
" -b bundle_indentifier Specifies the bundle identifier for the application to use when opening the file "
open -b "app.bundle.id"
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Just to show you I'm not a sore loser for having you answer this correctly _and_ -1'ing my answer.. I'll +1 you anyway. Because thats how I roll. – synthesizerpatel May 22 '13 at 07:49
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@synthesizerpatel Do you mean you down voted your own answer? – markhunte May 22 '13 at 12:24
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I'm just goofin on you. Your answer is better. – synthesizerpatel May 22 '13 at 16:40
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2Is there any way to launch the app after user clicked the 'close' button when the app had been successfully installed? – YuDenzel Aug 22 '13 at 05:06
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I had the same question but I do not understand where do I need to write the "open -b
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can you tell me, where to put this code? @markhunte – Ravi Kumar Karunanithi Sep 04 '14 at 09:02
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I solved this by adding a post install.sh script that has
#!/bin/bash
open /Applications/NewlyInstalled.app
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but what if the user install it on a different directory? is there a way to get the correct installation directory from somewhere? – schystz Nov 28 '12 at 12:29
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Due respect to all above answer, but This is also working after installation with packages which i mention below.
open -a 'App Name'
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What about choosing as postinstall action "Open File" and select as component your app?
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1The issue is that the installer requires admin rights to install and the appli will be started with the admin account – AP. Dec 07 '10 at 17:39