Re: [ferret_users] mac os x install issue

["William S. Kessler" <william.s.kessler@xxxxxxxx>]

You can still use version 5.7a, which works fine on old Macs. I did  
some of my best work in v5.7; almost everything works. Billy K

On 14 Jul 2010, at 2:03 PM, Aurelien Ponte wrote:

> Hi Sophie,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> This is unfortunately the case, my macbook pro has a 32bit Intel  
> Core Duo processor.
>
> I assume you didn't find any workaround ?
>
> aurelien
>
>
>
> On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Sophie Cravatte wrote:
>
> > Hi Aurelien,
> >
> > is your mac intel an old one?
> > I had the same problem with my mac intel I bought in 2006, and  
> > which was with a 32-bit processor.
> > Ferret is compiled for a 64-bits processor.
> > It might be your problem...
> >
> >
> > Sophie
> >
> > 2010/7/14 Aurelien Ponte <aponte@xxxxxxxx>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently tried to install ferret v6.3 on a mac intel 10.5.8 with  
> > the files found at :
> >
> > http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/static/Downloads/mac_intel_downloads.html
> >
> > When I try to run ferret however, I get the following message:
> >
> > dyn-113-18:~ aponte$ ferret
> > bash: /usr/local/ferret/bin/ferret: Bad CPU type in executable
> >
> > my computer:
> > dyn-113-18:~ aponte$ uname -a
> > Darwin dyn-113-18.ucsd.edu 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed  
> > Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
> >
> > Has anybody already encountered this problem ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > aurelien
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Sophie CRAVATTE
> > IRD-LEGOS
> > 14 avenue edouard belin
> > 05 61 33 30 05

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