Beginners help request for G4

[Rikkitic]

I have a fair bit of Windows experience but I am an absolute novice where Apple is concerned. I need to get some software working on a G4 iBook running OSX Tiger 10.4.11. I have no understanding whatsoever of this OS and would be very grateful for a walk-through in baby steps. If this is the wrong place to make such a request, maybe someone could point me in the right direction. What I am trying to do is get Soylatte Java 6 to work on this machine. I have unpacked the software and copied it to the users folder but I cannot seem to get the Export PATH and JAVA_HOME commands to work in Terminal in order to make the system use Java 1.6 instead of 1.5. I have spent a lot of time researching this but that has only served to increase my confusion. It is supposed to be a simple thing to do but I have so little understanding of the way things work that even simple seems to be beyond my grasp. I would really appreciate some help here.

 

[gsahli]

Just looked at the project on the web.
Your Mac uses the PowerPC processor.
The SoyLatte documents I found say the project is for Intel processor.

So, It can't work on your Mac.

If I'm missing something, give me some links, and I can help.
The links I've seen have file names that include "i386 or x86" - these mean for the Intel processor.

 

[MysticCow]

There is a Soylatte that is built for PowerPC, but it was buried somewhere on the page. Loots for "32-bit OpenJDK 7 Beta 1 for Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC (Beta Release)"

Or click here: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/stati..._darwin/openjdk7-macppc-2009-12-16-b4.tar.bz2

 

[gsahli]

Hey, thanks for that.
Still won't work (probably, that is). It's for 10.5. Significant changes in Xcode.
But I'm downloading it to check it out.

Note - ya, the docs say it doesn't build on 10.4.
So, no go - unless you want to try 10.5 (I won't, because I want to keep appletalk and Classic).

 

[eyoungren]

…because I want to keep appletalk and Classic).

Uhm, I can understand Classic, but all my 10.5 Macs use Appletalk all the time.

It's only 10.6 that killed Appletalk. And even then I'm not so sure. I have 10.4 and 10.5 Macs at work that are only sharing via Appletalk and the 10.9 Yosemite Mac Pro connects to them just fine.

I do have to use one of the Macs as an Appletalk print server for the Mac Pro though. I was using one of the 10.4 Macs for that, but 10.5 has a much better implementation of printer sharing.

 

[gsahli]

Oh, ya - thanks for that.
I use Classic for my Newtons (appletalk connection) - should have said that piece. And for a couple of expensive (to replace) or discontinued apps, too.
And my MDD (10.4) is also a print server for an old reliable Laserwriter 4/600

(the file sharing that Mavericks can connect to is Apple Filing Protocol - name changed from appletalk filing protocol - it doesn't use appletalk)

 

[Rikkitic]

I finally understand that what I was trying to do is not possible. I did not pay sufficient attention to the distinction between powerpc and i386. Thanks for the help anyway.

 

[J232022]

To be honest get a intel based mac or a cheap pc . You will be much happier .