openrocket/install4j

OpenRocket Installer Files

Originally a separate repository of Justin Hanna's, now a directory with its own commit history in the openrocket repository.

OpenRocket Supported Installers

The OpenRocket project will do its best to publish installers for the following platforms.

• Windows, 64-bit
• macOS, 64-bit (Intel & Apple Silicon)
• Linux, 64-bit

Maintainers

• Neil Weinstock
• Justin Hanney
• Joe Pfeiffer
• Sibo Van Gool

Instructions on updating the macOS drag-and-drop installer

This is an example of updating the installer from 22.02 to 23.09.beta.01:

If you use the macOS_resources/template_dmg_rw.dmg file, you can skip to step 4

1. Make sure install4j is not opened

2. Download the OpenRocket-22.02-macOS.dmg file

3. Make a read/write .dmg file using the terminal command hdiutil convert OpenRocket-22.02-macOS.dmg -format UDRW -o 22.02.beta.05_rw.dmg

4. Enlarge the writable DMG, by first checking the current size: hdiutil resize template_dmg_rw.dmg, e.g. you get 430000 in the 'cur' column, then just resize it to e.g. 500000: hdiutil resize -sectors 500000 template_dmg_rw.dmg

5. Mount the DMG: hdiutil attach template_dmg_rw.dmg

6. Open the OpenRocket-disk from your desktop and change the app name from 22.02 to 23.09

7. Copy the .DS_Store to openrocket/install4j/23.09/macOS_resources by running the command cp /Volumes/OpenRocket/.DS_Store openrocket/install4j/23.09/macOS_resources/DS_Store

8. Eject the OpenRocket DMG disk from your desktop (important step)

9. (optional) Delete template_dmg_rw.dmg

10. You're all done!