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Well, mine looks like this:

 

 

I don't have the `Packal Search` workflow enabled right now, so there are fewer options. The GUI option is the highlighted one. More than likely, all of the `Packal Search` results are coming up before the others for Packal, so just scroll down, and you might see it there. If it doesn't, then you might be running a version of OS X prior to Mavericks. The GUI works only with Mavericks or Yosemite.

Oh I see. Too many options for Packal Search~ Thank you so much for helping me solve this problem.

 

Actually, for this problem, that's the best possible answer.

 

The updater uses google to check if there is a live connection first. So, change `www.google.com` to `www.github.com` in two files. You'll see them below with the line numbers.

 

functions.php:117: exec( "ping -c 1 -t 1 www.google.com", $pingResponse, $pingError);
functions.php:122:    $connection = @fsockopen("www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 1);

and

report-usage-data.php:169: exec( "ping -c 1 -t 1 www.google.com", $pingResponse, $pingError);
report-usage-data.php:174:    $connection = @fsockopen("www.google.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 1);

See if that works. If not, then let me know.

 

I'll flag this in my notes to change in the future.

 

Cannot wait to tell that it works! Amazing! So many thanks for the time and debug!

And my remain question is that you've mentioned and GUI of Packal Updater but actually I did not know how to active it, a little prompt?

Thanks again for the help.

Also I think it is proper to make Github for alternative way to check live net connection. Most people may love to use Google(we do love but we cannot...).

And a little confuse that no relpy notification in this forum? I have to check it time by time.

Does China block Google?

I hate to say but the answer is yes.

Can you try to launch the Packal "GUI"?

 

Just try that without the "packal setup" and the regular argument "packal" with no subargument. It should be the first option, and it will work as long as you're running either Mavericks or Yosemite.

 

Let me know what happens.

Thank you for the reply.

It's necessary to make clear that I am in China and I cannot visit Packal.org directly.(I really do not know that why my country would block this cool website without any politics topics), so I use ShadowsocksX to visit Packal for workflows(thanks for developers for making good stuff). With Shadowsocks I can use Packal search workflow as other users except Packal Updater, which annoys me.

Please see the picture below if anything helps:

I typed "packal" and click the force update but nothing came out except the updating notification, also I could monitor some net traffic through iStatus Menus. 

Hello Shawn,

I found that I cannot launch Packal Updater, but I can use the Packal Search workflow. Weird.

Anyone can help?

Thanks in advance.