snow-leopard

Set Snow Leopard to use python 2.5 rather than 2.6

I just upgraded to Snow Leopard and I'm trying to get it to use the old python 2.5 install. I had with all my modules in it. Does anyone know how to set the default python install to 2.5? ...

Imagemagick, Snow Leopard and PDF Conversion

Having difficulties with Imagemagick and Snow Leopard. Imagemagick was installed using the install script from here here. Everything builds and installs correctly. Imagemagick behave normally for all commands (that I can find) except when trying to convert a PDF. For example, $ convert my.pdf my.jpg Segmetation Fault I thought it ...

Snow Leopard install ruby on rails (and mysql)

Hay Guys. I've done a clear reinstall of OS X leopard. So there's nothing on my system at all. I've installed xcode and im ready to install rails. However, my system is a macbook (macbook2,1), and apparently it doesnt support support 64bit by default, apple is going to add this at a later date. How would i go about installing rails? ...

rubycocoa 0.13.2, snow leopard & ruby 1.8.7

Hi, I have a rubyCocoa project, that was written for ruby 1.8.6, RubyCocoa version 0.13.2. The class tree is built from a xcdatamodel. I'm trying to migrate it to Snow Leopard. When trying to run, the program enters the endless loop, because it fails on method/property lookup. Seems, it has a problem to initialize a data model. It worke...

Unable to Build/Codesign after upgrading to Snow Leopard and iPhone SDK 3.0 Snow Leopard

I have no more hair to pull. Any help greatly appreciated! Profile set to Distribution, Device 2.2.1 Distribution, as has worked in the past. The build fails with this error: Command failed with exit code -1 The below section is highlighted in Build Results. ProcessingProductPackaging /Users/harvey/Documents/iPhone_App_Work/Listenin...

AppleScript Word Count Service

Hi folks, I am trying to create a service in OSX leopard that counts the number of words of selected text. I have automator set to run an applescript, with the following put in it: on run {input, parameters} count words of input display alert "Words: " & input return input end run When I compile the script, it...

OpenGL in Python with Snow Leopard?

I'm interested in playing around with OpenGL in Python. I've used OpenGL in C++ and Objective-C, but I don't have much experience in Python. I'm wondering if there's a good tutorial that works in Snow Leopard. I'd prefer to stay in 64-bit mode if possible, since I've heard 32-bit programs require loading a lot of extra 32-bit libraries. ...

installer software for macintosh?

Hi, What installer software for macintosh would you recommend? It has to support leopard & snow leopard. Be easily scriptable and not expensive. Thank you, Nava ...

DMD 2 on Snow Leopard

Has anyone tried the Digitalmars D compiler (version 2) on Snow Leopard? I'd like to upgrade but I'd rather have a working D compiler. ...

Octave + GNUPlot + Aquaterm + Mac OS 10.6 -- Student Needs Help!

Greetings, I'm the only person in my Numerical Analysis class attempting to do all of the MatLab based homework assignments in Octave - the opensource representation of MatLab. However, I'm having problems getting graphs to plot and I think it's a simple linking problem. I am running: -Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) -Octave 3.2.2 -Aqua...

Mysql Snow leopard issue

Just installed snow leopard and Xcode, i downloaded version 5.1.38 from the mysql website and installed it, then i ran sudo gem uninstall mysql and when i try to gem install mysql as below i get a documentation error, also when i try to run mysql by simply typing mysql into terminal i get -bash: mysql: command not found. When i try to co...

Problems with Snow Leopard, Django & PIL

Hi I am having some trouble getting Django & PIL work properly since upgrading to Snow Leopard. I have installed freetype, libjpeg and then PIL, which tells me: --- TKINTER support ok --- JPEG support ok --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok --- FREETYPE2 support ok but when I try to upload a jpeg through the django admin interface I get: ...

Can XCode 3.2 run on 10.5 Leopard?

Can XCode 3.2 run on 10.5.x Leopard? Or will it only work with Snow Leopard (10.6)? ...

How do I determine if my python shell is executing in 32bit or 64bit mode?

I need a way to tell what mode the shell is in from within the shell. I've tried looking at the platform module but it seems only to tell you about "about the bit architecture and the linkage format used for the executable": the binary is compiled as 64bit though (I'm running on OS X 10.6) so it seems to always report 64bit even thoug...

Find all PPC libraries, binaries and applications in Snow Leopard

Dear all, Do you have any pointer on how to write a script that will search my system for applications, libraries (i.e. /usr/local/lib and /usr/local), and binaries that are PPC only? I upgraded my system from a PPC Mac to a Intel Mac running Leopard 10.5. Then I upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6 which doesn't come with Rosetta. So I'm onl...

Linker warnings/errors after Snow Leopard Upgrade

Hi, I have 3rd party libraries for my mac applications which used to link nicely to my application with the previous version of Mac OS X. I have upgraded to Snow Leopard and now g++ linker complains: ld: warning: in /Users/paul/Projects/3rdPath/NHUI/Lib/mac32/libNHUI.a, file is not of required architecture The link also fails to loc...

Can't run Rake commands any more, hpricot_scan.bundle no suitable image found

Hey, Since I migrated to Snow Leopard I can't run any Rake command from the command line. e.g if I try to run rake stats I get: rake aborted! dlopen(/Users/xxx/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.1/lib/hpricot_scan.bundle, 9): no suitable image found. Did find: /Users/xxx/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/hpricot-0.8.1/lib/hpricot_scan.bundle: no ma...

How does one implement Snow Leopard dock-style menus?

Mac OS X Snow Leopard includes a new a new style for menus when one right-clicks the dock. How can these be implemented elsewhere, in my own program? Is it an API? An SPI? Thanks. ...

pboard types will be deprecated

According to NSPasteboard.h (line 294 in the standard Snow Leopard copy of the Xcode SDK) it states: /* Use of pboard types should be replaced with use of UTIs. Pboard types will be deprecated in a future release. */ I've tried finding samples of using UTIs as a replacement for pboard types but I can't find anything anywhere that demo...

No liblwgeom when using postgresql84 and postgis on Snow Leopard with MacPorts

I'm trying to get my dev environment back up and running after upgrading to Snow Leopard. In particular, I need postgresql and postgis working, but I'm running into the following problem. After installing both with the following: sudo port install postgresql84 postgresql84-server postgis I get errors like the following when I try to...