Escenic Content Studio 4.X on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
Apple Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard includes Java 6, but not Java 5. Escenic Content Studio 4.X requires Java 5, and this article exaplains how to install Java 5 on Snow Leopard.
The steps below will install Java 5 on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. Each bullet point is one command to be entered in Terminal. You will need your administrator password for some commands.
Get the java 5 that was included in 10.5 "Leopard" and unpack
- cd /tmp/
- curl -o java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/snow_leopard_workaround/java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz
- tar -xvzf java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz
Move it to your System java folder (password needed)
- sudo mv 1.5.0 /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0-leopard
Tell OS X that Java 5 actually is Java 5
- cd /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/
- sudo rm 1.5.0
- sudo ln -s 1.5.0-leopard 1.5.0
- sudo rm 1.5
- sudo ln -s 1.5.0 1.5
That is all - you are done
Escenic Content Studio 4.X may now be started as normal: Either by clicking the "Launch Escenic Content Studio" button in a web browser, or by clicking the Escenic Content Studio desktop icon.
Escenic has tested and verified that the above steps work without making any changes in Java Preferences.
Escenic Content Studio 5 users
Escenic Content Studio 5 users do not need to install Java 5 (as Escenic Content Studio 5 uses Java 6), but may need to start Escenic Content Studio once by clicking the "Launch Escenic Content Studio" button in a web browser. This is only needed if you get a Java error when attempting to launch Escenic Content Studio by clicking the desktop icon.
About this information
The above is copied from the the excellent how-to at OneSwarm: http://wiki.oneswarm.org/index.php/OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard
This information is licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2.
