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Running NetBeans 6.7 on Mac OS X

July 1st, 2009 niels Leave a comment Go to comments

NetBeans 6.7 has just been released, and I am really curious about it. Installation worked like a charm, but the app failed when being launched in the Finder.
I tried “open /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans\ 6.7.app/” in the Terminal, but all I got was “LSOpenFromURLSpec() failed with error …”.
Luckily there’s this blog with a decent solution:
1. open Terminal.app and log in as root (sudo -s)
2. enter this:
# cp -p /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java /tmp/java_original_binary
# lipo /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java -remove x86_64 -output /tmp/java
# cat /tmp/java > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/bin/java
NOTE: you need root powers for this hack – don’t try this if you don’t understand the code. If it fails you are on your own…

Feel free to launch NetBeans now :)

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