If you are running Tiger, please drop in a line to let all the regular readers of this blog (half a dozen Windows users) know that this technique won’t run on 10.4. If you answered no or if step 4 didn’t work for you and you are running Panther, leave a comment so I can take down this post/ blog. Leave a comment, below, reassuring everyone that this method actually works. You may, however, want to keep them for reasons best known to you. If you answered yes to #5, it’s safe to delete the files you kept as backup. Run the installer again and watch as it proceeds with installation. Hope I have been successful in complicating a simple process.
The moving process might prompt you for password and involve two separate transactions – copying files to the target location and then deleting them from the source. In Finder, go to folder /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources and move the files “ist” and “ist” to a safe place like the Desktop. If this step is successful, you shouldn’t have been reading this page in the first place.
Run it and see if it lets you do the needful. You run it at your own risk.ĭownload the version you need to install on your machine from Apple’s site.
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Note: This method does not require Pacifist and/ or modification of the installation package in any other way.ĭisclaimer: This works on Mac OS X 10.3.9. If you’ve managed to screw up your existing Java installation on Mac OS X, or you’re looking to downgrade for reason(s) best know to you, here’s a nice and easy way of preventing Mac OS X from telling you it knows best ((The “installer cannot run on this machine because it does not have…” messages)).
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