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| Posted by jhiver at Nov 19, 2012, 9:34:04 AM |
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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 |
| Posted by Puybaret at Nov 19, 2012, 9:43:00 AM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro Sweet Home 3D isn't compatible with Java 1.7 (or 7) under Mac OS X yet, so please install Java SE 6 provided by Apple. ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by jhiver at Nov 20, 2012, 12:18:32 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro Thanks for your reply, I've been desperately trying to find Java SE 6 download link on apple support pages without much success... ah well, it's better one knowing than 100 searching -) Downloading now, I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again. Cheers JM |
| Posted by jhiver at Nov 20, 2012, 12:27:16 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro Hello Again. Doesn't work... when I try to install the download you supplied, it says "this update needs Mac OS X 10.6". But I have 10.8... :-( Thanks JM |
| Posted by Puybaret at Nov 20, 2012, 2:49:54 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro Sorry I should have better read the link I gave you. This one should be ok: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/39490/apple-java ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by jhiver at Nov 21, 2012, 7:18:09 AM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro OK, I'm officially in Java nightmare... when i try to install, it says a more recent version of this package is already installed. I've tried following instructions found here: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_uninstall_java.xml and here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559?viewlocale=en_US To uninstall Java and renable java 6 but it doesn't seem to work. It always says "a more version of this package is already installed". Who said MacOS was user-friendly? :-) If you have any clues... Thanks JM |
| Posted by Puybaret at Nov 21, 2012, 3:43:42 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro I think the problem comes from the fact that you made some tests with Java 7 while its development, and you never removed the JDK you installed. Do you have some subfolders in /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ or ~/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/ folders (if you hate Terminal, you can type these directories with Finder > Go > Go To Folder menu item)? ---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by jhiver at Nov 22, 2012, 4:58:25 AM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro Hello, I don't hate terminal, quite the contrary in fact :) Here's what I see: MacMimi-2:~ Mimi$ ls -al /System/Library/Java/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 8 11:33 . drwxr-xr-x 74 root wheel 2516 Nov 8 11:33 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 8 16:00 Extensions drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Nov 8 11:33 Support MacMimi-2:~ Mimi$ ls -al ~/System/Library/Java/ ls: /Users/Mimi/System/Library/Java/: No such file or directory Cheers JM |
| Posted by Puybaret at Nov 22, 2012, 4:35:56 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro And what is the path returned by the following command? /usr/libexec/java_home---------------------------------------- Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator |
| Posted by jhiver at Nov 22, 2012, 6:05:07 PM |
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Re: Installation woes on MacBook Pro This is where it's getting weirder... MacMimi-2:~ Mimi$ /usr/libexec/java_home -bash: /usr/libexec/java_home: No such file or directory But... MacMimi-2:~ Mimi$ locate java_home /usr/libexec/java_home MacMimi-2:~ Mimi$ ls -al /usr/libexec/java_home lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 79 Nov 8 11:33 /usr/libexec/java_home -> /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java_home Is a symlink to a file which no longer exists - probably because i tried uninstalling java using different methods as I was browsing / googling on how to do it... I know java 7 is installed but I don't even know where that is installed :-( |
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