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I need to install just about any version that will work for some simple ETL jobs. I'm quite new to the mac world as I got one from my employer. I got pentaho 7.1 or 8.1 "installed" by unzipping the file to Applications and this seems to work at the first glimpse, but there are several follow up issues like crashing the whole application on right click in the sidebar.

I guess I need a clean installation/troubleshoot documentation for mac. I'm running the latest version of Java available for Mac which is 10.0.2 which might be the problem...

Is there any way I can test another Java Version without removing that one? I would be grateful for any documentation or help page that points me in the right direction.

coffee_bear
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Pentaho 7.1 and 8.1 run using Java 8, so the crashes are most definitely caused by version 10 of Java!

In regards to using another version, you can use a program called Jenv to switch between Java versions on your mac.

First install homebrew (a package manager) using the command 

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Then run the command

brew install jenv

Next you need to install Java 8 JDK (Oracle website)

Once installed, add it to jenv using the command

jenv add /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/{YOUR_JAVA_VERSION}

Obviously replace {YOUR_JAVA_VERSION} with the actual directory of Java 8

Repeat for your Java 10 directory as well.

Run below command to view your added Java versions

jenv versions

You can change Java versions by running the following

jenv global oracle64-1.8.0.60

Replace oracle64-1.8.0.60 with whatever Java you want (The output of the jenv versions command)

Hope that helps!

Homebrew for Mac

Jenv

blairmeister
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  • Everything seemed to have worked out properly. but the program is still crashing on right click in the sidebar. jenv doctor shows: [ERROR] Java binary in path is not in the jenv shims. [ERROR] Please check your path, or try using /path/to/java/home is not a valid path to java installation. PATH : /usr/local/Cellar/jenv/0.4.4/libexec/libexec:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin [ERROR] Jenv is not loaded in your bash [ERROR] To fix : cat eval "$(jenv init -)" >> /Users/MYUSER/.bash_profile Any plans? – coffee_bear Aug 31 '18 at 20:24
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    Ok, I completely removed all java installations and just installed Java 8 with homebrew. Now pentaho 7.1 is working perfectly fine, no crashes anymore! As you pointed me in the right direction I will award you the correct answer :-) Thanks – coffee_bear Aug 31 '18 at 21:56
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    Sorry about delay. I'm glad you got it fixed in the end. Glad I could help! – blairmeister Sep 01 '18 at 22:35
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This question may be the same as this one. My answer (which was was not accepted as an answer, so I cannot flag your question as duplicate) was that the spoon.sh contains the following lines

echo "I'm sorry, this Mac platform [$ARCH] is not yet supported!"
echo "Please try starting using 'Data Integration 32-bit'
or" echo "'Data Integration 64-bit' as appropriate."
exit;

So my recommendation was to either follow Pentaho's recommendation to switch to java 32 bits (you can do this for DPI only), either to use Pentaho 7.1.

To switch to Java 32-bit, get the java software as in this question and copy it in a directory nearby your PDI (I am using ../myPDI/Java). Then edit the set-pentaho-env.sh so that the _PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME points to that ../myPDI/Java and and _JAVA_HOME point to ~../MyPDI/Java/bin/java.exe`.

You will need a few (not many) trials before to get it. To ease your debug, you may adding the following lines at the end of the set-pentaho-env.sh, may be of a great help:

echo "DEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME=$_PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME"
echo "DEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA=$_PENTAHO_JAVA"
$_PENTAHO_JAVA -version

as well as replacing temporarily the line "$_PENTAHO_JAVA" $OPT -jar "$STARTUP" -lib $LIBPATH "${1+$@}"with "$_PENTAHO_JAVA" -version.

AlainD
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