On May 2, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Michael Brasser wrote:
I installed uDig 1.1.M8 on my home computer (running OS X version
10.4.5) earlier this week. Some information that might be helpful
for other OS X users:
1. Java Advanced Imaging is automatically installed with 10.4. Users
still using 10.3 can download and install JAI from
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/java3dandjavaadvancedimagingupdate.html
(reference: http://developer.apple.com/java/faq/apis.html#anchor1)
But uDig requires Java 5/1.5 which can only be installed on Tiger.
Manually installing it on Panther is unsupported and may not
completely work.
2. Image I/O is NOT automatically installed, and needs to be
manually installed to support some of uDig's functions (I found this
out when trying to load a world file for the first time). There is
no specific OS X version of Image I/O, but jai_imageio.jar from the
Windows or Linux installers
(http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/downloads/download-iio-1_0_01.html)
can be used by placing the jar in
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5/Home/lib/ext
before running uDig.
(reference: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOT/2.2+Dependencies)
Instead of putting extensions in the System, where they may get
trashed by system updates, put them in /Library/Java/Extensions, or
your home, ~/Library/Java/Extensions. Java is supposed to look in
these places for user extensions.
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William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
http://www.kyngchaos.com/
