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Posted by jhiver at Nov 19, 2012, 9:34:04 AM
Installation woes on MacBook Pro
Hello Guys,

I'm having a hard time getting Sweet Home 3D to work on my new Macbook Pro Retina. I previously had it running without problems on my Mac Mini, which runs OS X Lion.

On the Macbook Pro, I have OS X Mountain Lion (18.8.2). When I launch the app, it says it needs Java SE 6 and prompts for an install. However when I click "install" (which should trigger the download + install process), it says the software is currently unavailable.

I've tried for several days and I always get this message.

I've installed java directly using Sun installation package and this is what I have now:

MacMimi-2:jre Mimi$ java -version
openjdk version "1.7.0-internal"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-internal-root_2012_01_27_18_44-b00)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

Turns out installing Java doesn't make any difference. It still says Java SE 6 is needed.

I've tried downloading and using the "portable" version but I get the same error when I click on the MacOS X app.

Any clues on how to get this to work please? Sweet Home 3D is a superb app and I would like to enjoy it on my new computer...

Cheers
JM