There appears to be something wrong with the script included in the Araucaria install images which means that the classpath is not set properly to run Araucaria. This means that although all of the software is included, the JVM cannot find all of the extra jars or other items that the software relies upon to function correctly.To get Araucaria running on OS X, use the following procedure:
- Assuming that you have Java 1.5 installed on your Mac (this is the default on recent versions, if you don't have it installed then download and install it), download the Araucaria3_1.dmg file.
- Create an Araucaria folder in which you will keep your Araucaria software. This can be located anywhere you like but on the desktop will be fine for now. You can subsequently move it once everything is working.
- Open the dmg file, select all of its contents and copy them into your new Araucaria folder.
- Create a new text file called araucaria.sh and save it into your new Araucaria folder.
- Edit araucaria.sh to contain the following script:
#!/bin/bash
java -Xmx96m -cp ./jars/mm.mysql-2.0.4-bin.jar:./jars/jai_codec.jar:./jars/Araucaria3_1.jar Araucaria
- Make araucaria.sh executable:
$ chmod 700 araucaria.sh
- Run araucaria.sh
$ ./araucaria.sh
- You should now see something similar to the following
