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CaminoKnight3.0

Name: CaminoKnight
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

27 January 2006

Automagically updates Camino w/latest nightly build.

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Overview

CaminoKnight automatically updates Camino to the latest nightly version. No user intervention is required, everything is fully automated.

Downloads Camino nightly builds from server
Mounts the disk image
Creates a backup of the previous version on disk
Copies the new nightly build to its default location
Option to install icon themes
Option to auto-launch the new version of Camino
Option to undo latest install and revert to last version
Option to show the change log for past week
Option to show Camino's Read Me and Release Notes
Makes backups of bookmarks and cookie files

What's new in CaminoKnight

Version 3.0:

Compiled as Universal Binary
Added French localization

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70 Reviews of CaminoKnight

306 dowloads and no review? Come on, it either works or it doesn't. And it works just fine. I love things that make my life easier.

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Out of curiosity, I just ran the function to revert to an older version of Camino. Now a half dozen or so of my applications are missing. Not good. A PhD student really needs his word processor. Not good at all . . .

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For Camino users, CaminoKnight is a godsend. It transparently updates Camino to the latest, and usually stable binary. While it is somewhat of a hassle to get started (the options are rather ambiguous at times), it does the job well and if you're a user willing to play with nightlies, then such problems are par for the course. Highly recommended!

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Hangs up while loading (10.3.9). I'd hold on to V 2.8 until this is fixed. JB

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Currently CK won't allow me to tell it where my Camino is - all the apps are greyed out in the Select Application Path dialogue - will contact Reinhold about this...

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Oh, Reinhold, you've done it again. {swoon} All the problems are solved, with v. 2.8. I'm back to a one click, update papradise and it even loads my "custom theme" from "Caminicon." JB Ps. Without your efforts, I probably would be just be another; boring, dour, Safari user.

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For most people, CaminoKnight works fine. If for some reason CaminoKnight fails to dismiss the license panel and mount the disk image, please redownload CaminoKnight 2.7. It is conceivable that there might be a timing issue some users are experiencing. I have therefore replaced the 2.7 version with another one that will hopefully work for those few users. Do not bother to re-download v2.7 if you don't experience any problems, because the change is not fundamental and only handles the timing of the click.

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The developer was quick to track down the problem I was having with OS 10.3.9 and CK 2.7 He sent me a new version which works perfectly in Panther. Hopefully he will make it available to other Panther users.

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Despite a quick e-mail response from the developer, I cannot get CK 2.7 to work with OS 10.3.9 It hangs at that part of the program where the license agreement dialog box appears. I waited in excess of two minutes for it to automatically agree, but in the end I had to manually click on the agree button and was left with the mounted disk image on my desktop and the previous version of Camino.app removed from my application folder. Can anyone else corroborate my problem. Yes, I did enable "assistive devices" in the Universal preference pane.

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A quoate from Reinhold Penner: "click on the Default button next to the nightly URL in the preference panel of CK. That should do the trick." And it works great!

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I have not been able to upgrade Camino since Aug 18th, although the comments talk of many changes during the week.

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This is a great app... as are FireFix and NightShift. Thanks for all of them. Download link in 2.5 didn't work for me, either. ALSO, 2.6 still asks if I want to upgrade (to 2.6).

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2.6 is available according to 2.5, but it wouldn't download it. I came here, clicked the "Reinhold Penner" link, and downloaded 2.6 from the iDisk.

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Just will not work. Says: curl: (7) Failed to connect to 130.239.18.142: Host is down The server may be down or the file may not be available. Try again later. It's been saying that for over a week now...

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does not work crashes every time i click on it if the developer wan't the crash log i got it Running Tiger 10.4.1

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At first, I could not believe the problems some people reported about errors. But I have now found out that the tar.gz files downloaded from .Mac are in fact corrupt. The sympton of this corruption is that there is a stray Readme file and the app generates the ominous 1708 error. I could not reproduce that, because the .tar.gz file I put on my local iDisk is just fine, only the version transferred to .Mac is broken (and it affects only files in the Public folder). This is a nightmare. Anyway, I just archived the files to .zip and changed the link on MU.

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Apparently, Camino has quietly released version 0.8.2 on their nightly build website. For those of us who still use this (very gnarly) browser, copy: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/nightly/latest-0.8.2/Camino.dmg.gz into the "Nightly Build" section of the Preferences tab. It's still a great browser in my opinion that's been upstaged by Safari as of late. Maybe someday, when we have flying cars, Camino 1.0 will be released. Wouldn't that be grand?

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v2.3.2 seems to be actually v2.3.1 and does not launch anything on MacOS 10.3.4. is there a fix?

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I just received this from Reinhold via email, the fix to update this to download 0.8 builds is simple: I just returned from a trip to Europe and people report that nightlies of 0.8 are no longer downloaded correctly by CK. The reason for this is that the latest builds are now in a different directory. CaminoKnight can access this directory, but you need to tell it the new URL. So go to the Preferences Tab in CK and set the new path: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/camino/nightly/latest-0.8/Camino.dmg.gz

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the "mount Camino image" process hangs (app doesn't crash tho), and caminoknight prefs/reinstalling doesn't help...

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Yep. Curl error here. (Running 10.3.2) CaminoKnight is useless until this bug is fixed.

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received a 'curl error' after launching the app. I'll hold off on using CaminoKnight until this bug is addressed.

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I'd like to see something like this, but for Firebird. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to do that, so how 'bout it?

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Wonderful Wonderful.. I like to try out every newly updated Camino (IMHO, is still the best browser period!) and this application make it much easier to download the nightly update. Thanks!!

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CaminoKnight does not seem to recognize the location of Camino on my hard drive (the Camino app is greyed out). I've never had problems with CK before (on my G4), but it's not working on my Dual G5.

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Apparently Camino Knight has issues with certain scripts that reside in the Scripting Additions folder. Move this folder out of the Library and relaunch Camino Knight. Worked for me.

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works well for me... have you tried deleting its prefs file? the author of the software is *very* responsive, ask him if all else fails

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nada. caminoknight takes up no cpu and 2.1% memory for 30 mins. hmm well i never actually tried to use it before - not compat w/ camino 0.7.0?

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Thanks for getting the new app out so quickly. I suppose now much changed but the name. Now we just need Camino splashscreens in Chimericon, which I suppose will be renamed Caminocon, or Caminoicon. I dig the new 'Chilled' theme.

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It seems that, for the past week or so, ChimeraKnight no longer works... and, I suspect that it is NOT the fault of the developer of ChimeraKnight but rather the fault of the Chimera developers. I note that there were some announced changes as to the direction of the further development of Chimera, I think this must be the reason why ChimeraKnight no longer works.

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I just wanted to commend you on a very helpful piece of software! It really makes life easier. I use Chimera almost exclusively and it's fantastic that I don't have to manually do the updates of the nightly build. A great utility for a great browser. Thanks,

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Depuis que le test BSD a changé (par rapport à la version 1.9.2) cette version 1.9.3 ne reconnait plus BSD subsystem et refuse de fonctionner. Au lancement, elle demande d'installer BSD et quitte systématiquement.

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I ran it (1.9.1) for the second time (didn't work first time), in full-auto mode. Well, everything came fine (it d/l'ed the 1.9.2 by itself) BUT I lost my localization file (French) from Chimera localization 0.6. I tried reinstall it with no success. I do not know whether it comes from the localization installer, ChimeraKnight or Chimera nightly build itself… Did somebody experienced that problem?

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This is nice demonstration of ASS. Who cares if it may never make it onto a default Mac OS X installation CD? The project itself is worth 5 stars, the icon kicks ass, and the tool doesn't suck.

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Works just fine as promised;and it's free. Why anyone would complain is beyond comprehension. Thank you to the developer.

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I'm the Anonymous that wrote about the BSD subsystem problem. There's absolutely no problem with this version, works perfectly. The rearrangement of the interface was a bit confusing at first though.

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Well as a matter of fact I do have the BSD subsystem installed. I installed it when I upgraded to 10.2 from 10.1.5. I even have the BSD installer package in the "receipts" folder. I'll stick with 1.7.2 for the time being and see how I go in the next update.

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The requirement for the BSD subsystem is not a bug. Install the BSD subsystem from the OS X Install CD (it's in the "Optional Installations" folder.

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An error saying "The BSD subsystem is not installed. ChimeraKnight will now quit." pops up on startup, and I can't do anything past that. Please fix this bug in 1.8.1.

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Well, no, the auto-update feature is exactly what version 1.8 now implements. From now on, you will get notification of new versions and the option to download.

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Congratulations for the app., this should be in Chimera's package for the ones who want to be updated about its builds. Yeah, some of them are very unstable and make me come back to Internet Explorer, but it's understandable. Keep doing this great work on the "future iBrowser"!

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Um,just one thing. The "quit", "cancel", "download" and "revert" buttons don't seem to work. This has been a problem for me since those features were introdeced. I've had to unstuff the backup file manually to restore the previous "unbuggy" version.

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This app works great! Thanks to the Dev for keeping it up to date. I only wish the software I bought was updated so regularly.

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Noivad, yes you are missing something ;-) ChimeraKnight can revert to the last version. It's all explained in the Read Me. In short, after you've downloaded a nightly and it's crashing left and right, simply re-run CK. It will let you revert to the last version and offer to also restore your bookmarks and cookie files in case the latest nightly messed with them.

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Sweet. I'd avoided DLing nightly builds because of the multiple steps involved in doing everything Chimera Knight Does. the only thing I wish it had was a button to undo the updates just as quickly. (Or am I missing something?)

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Sheesh, cut the dev a break, will you Mr. Anonymous. I'm sure he's sorry for supporting the format that was current as of 10-8-02. Of course now that it's back to .gz you can just....DOWLOAD THE OLDER VERSION OF CHIMERAKNIGHT FROM THE SAME SITE! What a novel idea. Please think before speaking next time. We could all benefit.

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Hey Anonymous, thanks for the comments. You may want to check the Chimera site to see for yourself that as of Oct. 8, the nightlies are in fact compressed in bzip2 format and the file name has changed to Chimera.dmg.bz2. Brainless as I am, I released a version that handles this new format. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

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This app *DOES NOT WORK*... Why? Because the programmer is an idiot. First off, applescript is slow as hell.. Second, he links to Chimera.dmg.bz2.. I don't know if Chimera has ever been nightlied as a bzip2 file... Third, when you change the URL, since it's still trying to unbzip2 the gzip file that they distribute on the Moz ftp, it breaks the image. GET A BRAIN IDIOT PROGRAMMER! Totally unfunctional app.

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Does exactly the opposite to what it says. The following error pops up when I run it. [curl: (32) Couldn't get file size: Chimera.dmg.bz2: not a plain file.] Does anybody else have that problem?

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Works (almost) exactly as described; still occasionally fails but much better than the first couple decimal releases after 1.0. And Chimera *rocks*, so this product is a must-have for anyone doing serious browsing in OS X :)

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Up to version 1.5 already? Hmm, someone needs to write an application which will download the current version of this application each night, and install it...

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If you like Chimera, you will love this application. It's a must have for Chimera-lovers!! I'm using it for over 2 weeks now and run it every day! Great little application!!

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