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Mint on the Mac

I guess I’m a bit behind the technology curve. The MacBook that I’m using as one of my development machines is one of the original white Intel MacBooks with a Core Duo CPU (not Core 2 Duo). It’s a 32-bit machine, and Apple doesn’t offer Java 6 for 32-bit computers.

Mint, however, requires a version of Java 6, which is why we recommended using SoyLatte [1] to run Mint. That comes with all kinds of inconveniences because SoyLatte uses X11 for its GUIs, which means DrJava needs to run under X11.

Yesterday I tested Mint and DrJava with Mint using Apple’s Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 6 (file name: javase6release1dp6.dmg [2]), which I still had floating around and which is the last version of Apple’s Java 6 that still runs on 32-bit Macs. It works! SoyLatte is only required if you don’t have a version of Java 6 (either Apple’s official version on 64-bit Macs, or Apple’s Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 6 on 32-bit Macs) on your Mac.

I have updated the instructions on how to install Java Mint on the Mac [3] and how to run DrJava with Mint [4] accordingly.

(Re-posted from The Java Mint Blog [5].)

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