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Apollo not downloadable on on Mac OSX

trying to access Apollo from my Mac.

I was at first under the impression that X11 was inbuilt in my Mac Terminal so I thought that I could access "Apollo"- the annotation system as X11 is needed for this. I was told that turning on X11 was done by typing "xeyes" but this retuned "Cannot open display".

When I typed "apollo &" and hit enter.

It returns "No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, but this program performed an operation which requires it".

I downloaded "XQuartz" in the hope that this would solve the problem but the same command returned the same error.

Any tips?

software error
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updated by ndunnme • ndunnme • written by chrisclarkson100 chrisclarkson100

Start X-Quartz. Then run apollo from the terminal (xterm) that is opened by X-Quartz. If a terminal does not open automatically go up to "applications" and then choose terminal (apple + N).

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

Tried that but it returned:

bash-3.2$ bash: apollo: command not found
[1]+  Exit 127                apollo
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updated by Ram Ram • written by chrisclarkson100 chrisclarkson100

You will need to provide full path to the location of apollo executable or amend your $PATH with that directory so you can run apollo from anywhere on the system. Do you know the location of apollo on your computer?

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

I'm not familiar with the directory pathways as I'm working on an external server.

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written by chrisclarkson100 chrisclarkson100

Your provide this critical piece of information now ...

In that case you will want to try this from the X11 terminal.

$ ssh -Y your_acct_name@server_you_are_logging_into

This should setup X11 forwarding (in theory).

Once you log in to the remote server then make sure you can see apollo

$ which apollo

If you see a valid path then run apollo

$ apollo
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updated by Ram Ram • written by GenoMax GenoMax

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This must be for the older java desktop version?

I would use the newer web / docker based version: https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo

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written by ndunnme • ndunnme

Are you the developer / maintainer, just out of interest?

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