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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...
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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.
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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 -)
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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
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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:
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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)?
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D creator
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 :-(
