Comments on: Installing the JDK 1.6 on Mac OS X The Video

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:57:36 +0000

Hi MK,

If you have a newer version of Java then perhaps you don't need SoyLatte? Not sure how I can help you here. However, you can download the latest SoyLatte versions from here: http://blog.adsdevshop.com/2009/11/13/soylatte-...

By: MK

MK — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:17:01 +0000

When I downloaded the file from http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=... and opened it a alert comes up and says "This volume contains a newer version of Java." and the only thing i can do is close it down. Please help

By: Freddy

Freddy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:41:58 +0000

wen i try to open a file to play a game which is in a document a black box pops up wen i click run, the black box says the following: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: client
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: client at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLo ader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivile ged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLCla ssLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoa der.java:307) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadCla ss(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoa der.java:252) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal( ClassLoader.java:320)
Could not find the main class: client. Program will exit.
Press any key to continue . . .

Could u please help me fix this and email me back, perhaps making a video or a step by step guide on how to fix this, by the way im not too good with computers so if u could be descreptive or make a video would probably help the most, i know many people who are having this problem and need help. Thank you for your time – Fred

By: Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:55:47 +0000

Thank you for the exhaustive feedback Kevin. I did this tutorial a long time ago and should update it. Thank you for letting me know how I can make it more useful, especially for the less technical readers.

By: Kevin Jaques

Kevin Jaques — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:37:38 +0000

Further to my last, it would be helpful to mention the “whereis java” command for the Terminal, so one can see the path name which the system is using to run the java command. Obviously, if that is not the path to soylatte, then soylatte is not being used.

By: kevinjaques

kevinjaques — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:28:38 +0000

I appreciate your attempt to help, but I think it did more harm than good. You should add a bold note that with X.5 and up, users can just choose the version with “Java Preferences.app” if they are up to date,. You might include a link to the X.5 update that added 1.6. Also, it would be helpful to explain that JDK is different than the runtime version, and that version 1.6 IS referred to as version 6.

I added the path, no problem, but before I stumbled upon “Java Preferences.app”, my system insisted on preferring the “/usr/bin” version of java, so the whole thing failed for me.

There are also several minor things which are misleading/confusing (the idiosyncratic name of your Terminal program, using contextual menus to cut and paste, referring to “Apple-s” instead of command-s, assuming that people have a hidden profile file (why not just add the path with the login script for their preferred shell?), unnecessarily using the path name to TextEdit (at least it is unnecessary for me after I told the system to use TextEdit for such files).

By: willdonovan

willdonovan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:06:31 +0000

This was AWESOME.

exactly what I need. Everyone explains things in Windows terms and I know that the Mac equivalent is never as complicated.

Thanks again. This totally explained PATH’s for what I needed.

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By: DONNA

DONNA — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:34:19 +0000

IAM HAVING PROBLEMS ALL I GET IS AN ERROR 25099 UNZIPPING FILES FAILED THAT SUCKS IAM TRYING USE MY FROSWIRE CAN SOMEONE HELP ME !!!!!!

By: R.

R. — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:13:55 +0000

hi, i download soylatte16-i386-1.0.3.tar.bz2 for my apple mac 10.4.11
followed all the instructions untill the terminal bash, you said to type in echo $PATH
i did that but it doesnt come up with what you said it should.
it comes up with /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
so a carried on by typing in the command, open /Applications/TextEdit.app -/.profile
it then said open[1448] No Such File: /Users/RobynX/-/.profile

why is this not working, and what should i do?