Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....

[Lindon]

So I have a customer who wants me to build them a whitebox packages installer...

..and its so long since I did this it hurts my head.

Can someone tell me again (or offer me some sort of package template) how I get AU and VST3 plugins into the system folder with Packages? (i.e. ~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 etc.)

[tomekslesicki]

Hey Lidon,

here's my template :-)

TEMPLATE.zip

[bendurso]

@Lindon Yes. You have to place it in Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 for the VST3 file and Library/Audio/Plugins/Components for the AU component. You should create the folders manually (right click -> New Folder)

For the VST3 file it looks like this:

[Lindon]

@bendurso thansk - yes I know this its just failing to run with an error for this folder structure.

[d.healey]

@Lindon i posted a script on patreon with a video that does this

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon i posted a script on patreon with a video that does this

okay thanks I will go take a look..

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon i posted a script on patreon with a video that does this

Sorry Dave I looked and looked and couldnt find it on the Patreon site - any clues?

[Dan Korneff]

@Lindon said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

just failing to run with an error

So the file is being placed, but encounters an error when you try to use it? Or is Packages failing?

[Lindon]

@Dan-Korneff Packages is failing.. with an error -- cant remember what it is exactly (not on the Mac right now)...

[Dan Korneff]

@Lindon I would think that's a permissions issue. Have you seen this artice:
https://adamargyle.net/2021/02/08/dont-have-permission-to-create-a-file-in-whitebox-packages-app/

[Lindon]

@Dan-Korneff said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon I would think that's a permissions issue. Have you seen this artice:
https://adamargyle.net/2021/02/08/dont-have-permission-to-create-a-file-in-whitebox-packages-app/

er-- right this seems to suggest its a file permission on the package creation process, assuming I get around this, by moving my plugins that are being added in to, say, the desktop, will WhiteBox just install in the system folders? Or do I have to set a flag (somewhere) for that too?

[Dan Korneff]

@Lindon This article has a much better explanation than I could come up with.
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/Q&A_3.html

You can select whether it's the system folder or user folder. In general, I always install files to the System Library ("/Library"), and then use a post install script to move user-specific configurations, preferences, or files for the project (AKA presets, documentation, ect...) to the User Library ("~/Library")

[d.healey]

@Lindon said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

Sorry Dave I looked and looked and couldnt find it on the Patreon site - any clues?

This one. If I remember correctly the script uses altool for the notarization, so you'll need to change that line to use the new notary tool.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/easy-automated-67290361

Edit: And now that I think about it I might be using the user folder, not the system folder... can't remember

[Lindon]

@d-healey said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

Sorry Dave I looked and looked and couldnt find it on the Patreon site - any clues?

This one. If I remember correctly the script uses altool for the notarization, so you'll need to change that line to use the new notary tool.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/easy-automated-67290361

Edit: And now that I think about it I might be using the user folder, not the system folder... can't remember

thanks - Im not troubled by the codesign or notarization steps - its the install process using Packages into ~/Library so not sure your video/script will be of a great deal of use to me...

[Lindon]

@Dan-Korneff said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon This article has a much better explanation than I could come up with.
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/Packages/Q&A_3.html

You can select whether it's the system folder or user folder. In general, I always install files to the System Library ("/Library"), and then use a post install script to move user-specific configurations, preferences, or files for the project (AKA presets, documentation, ect...) to the User Library ("~/Library")

Thanks Dan - I will give this process a go.

[clevername27]

@Lindon Oh dude, if you're stay looking for info, hit me up over chat. I got that shizzle down.

[Lindon]

@Dan-Korneff okay back here again , and its still not working for me, here's what Im trying to do in teh set up:

and I build this and get:

Im running this as me nothing unusual...

[Lindon]

the only thing I see as different is when I start to define the payload then /Library doesnt have Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 in it - so I create them, and they are seen as custom folders not as Standard Folders..

so how do I get Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 to show up in packages?

[DanH]

@Lindon this is a permissions issue with OSX. try putting the .vst3 in the VST3 folder DAW's use and see if it works.

Otherwise the dev gave me a version that should get around this issue but I had to also add something into gatekeeper / start up options

[Lindon]

@DanH said in Back to using White box...with all the problems there in....:

@Lindon this is a permissions issue with OSX. try putting the .vst3 in the VST3 folder DAW's use and see if it works.

er thats what Im trying to do... get Packages to put the plugin in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3

Otherwise the dev gave me a version that should get around this issue but I had to also add something into gatekeeper / start up options