file requires stuffit 8

[kirkw]

I am fighting with stuffit over a .sit file. I have version Stuffit version 8 installed but keep getting the error "Sorry, Expander requires Stuffit Engine 8.0.0 or later. Please reinstall...."

It looks to me as if there are several versions of stuffit installed on this machine (was 10.2.7, just upgraded to 10.3). Specifically the stuffit engine in /disk0/System_Folder/Extensions/ looks to be 6.0.

Is there any way to get rid of all the older stuffit stuff? or better yet can I unpack .sit files with tar?

 

[MisterMe]

Re: file requires stuffit 8

Originally posted by kirkw
I am fighting with stuffit over a .sit file. I have version Stuffit version 8 installed but keep getting the error "Sorry, Expander requires Stuffit Engine 8.0.0 or later. Please reinstall...."

It looks to me as if there are several versions of stuffit installed on this machine (was 10.2.7, just upgraded to 10.3). Specifically the stuffit engine in /disk0/System_Folder/Extensions/ looks to be 6.0.

Is there any way to get rid of all the older stuffit stuff? or better yet can I unpack .sit files with tar?

The MacOS X 10.3 installer seems install Stuffit Expander 7.0.3 at the expense of any other version you may have. The workaround is to reinstall version 8. I did it. It didn't hurt a bit.

 

[bousozoku]

Yes, when someone wrote the installation script, they didn't check the version of Stuffit components.

Re-installation of version 8 worked for me as well.

 

[kirkw]

where did you re-install from. The first thing I tried was re-installing version 8, but the stuffit_std_8_x_install.sit asked for version 8 in order to unpack as well... kind of circular...

 

[MisterMe]

Originally posted by kirkw
where did you re-install from. The first thing I tried was re-installing version 8, but the stuffit_std_8_x_install.sit asked for version 8 in order to unpack as well... kind of circular...

That file can be unstuffed using Stuffit Expander 7. You should be able to drag it to the Stuffit Expander 7 icon to unstuff it. Then you can rerun the Stuffit STD 8.0 Installer. After that, run the Stuffit 8.0.1 Updater.