Jon Chappell wrote:
Instead of using the Terminal, would it not be a lot easier to use Pacifist?
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Jon:
By way of some history on this issue that I have posted in other threads (some of which are subscribed to by Shane):
My principal expertise that I share on this forum has to do with using PowerPC applications in a Lion (and then Mt. Lion and now Mavericks) world. As such, I came across various examples of people having trouble attempting to install FCS2 (FCP6) into Lion and receiving the "PowerPC" dialog box.
The early advice on this issue (after the initial introduction of Lion in 2011) was to attempt to install Rosetta from the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install DVD into Lion and then successes in installing FCP 6 were reported!
It always troubled me that this advice was being given as it made no sense that installing Rosetta into Lion should do anything, let alone allow the installer for FCP6 to function, when there have been absolutely no other reports of any other PPC app working in a similar fashion! Why would it work almost exclusively for FCP's installer and nothing else?
Furthermore, I have never seen reported anyone's success in subsequently being able to remove Rosetta from their Lion system. And finally I began to see some anecdotal reports of severe system damage after later updates in Lion by some of those who had previously installed Rosetta; requiring a complete hard disk wipe and system install leaving the user in the same quandry as how to install FCP6.
Early on in my interest on this topic, I determined that I should speak out against the installation of Rosetta in Lion and instead use of Pacifist instead. However, some of the users in these threads reported that they were not successful in attempting to install FCP6 with Pacifist.
At this point, I became interested in getting to the root of the problem and attempted to purchase a used copy of FCS2 on both eBay and Amazon.
I had previously purchased from Amazon, used/demo CD-ROMs published by Pearson (for use with their educational textbooks, after posters [primarily college students] would ask how to run these PowerPC CD-ROMs on their modern [i.e., Lion] Macs) in my research to post a now successful solution to their problems. Given the severe downturn in educational funding, most colleges are not upgrading these particular textbooks and hence there is little financial incentive for Pearson to rerelease these CD-ROMs written for modern Intel Macs.
I discovered that FCS2 is still in healthy demand by its expanding base of users, especially after the debacle of the initial release of FCP X. Hence, even as "used" software, this package sells for prices that I cannot personally justify for the "greater good!"
I have posted my frustration in this regard many times in the hopes that someone would "loan" me a copy of FCS2 for the "fair use" of attempting to discover a better way to solve the problem of its installation into Lion, Mt. Lion and Mavericks. But my audience is small and I have not received a positive response.
Then I discovered Jeremy Johnstone's blogposts on the vary same issue and he presented his Terminal solution to the problem. I have many times suggested this solution to modern posts in the Mt. Lion and Mavericks world to those frustrated at having purchased a new Mac yet unable to install FCS2 onto it. To those who were willing to use Terminal, they all reported success in these efforts.
However, use of Terminal is a bit daunting to some, so I continued to pursue the issue and further discovered that Jeremy Johnstone has later claimed on his blog to have come up with a solution to the installation problem that only requires the use of Text Edit, a program that most anyone skilled in the editing arts would have no reservations about using.
I then contacted Johnstone personally and asked him if he could provide a more detailed step-by-step instruction set and initially he inicated that he would. However, I have been unable to contact him further and he appears to have moved on to more important issues in his life.
So again my hope was to acquire a "loaner" copy of FCS2 so that I could implement Johnstone's work and describe the solution in detail. Again, to this date, the limited audience that have read my requests have not responded positively.
Perhaps you or Shane would like to made this loan, in the efforts of a good simple solution. I live in Los Angeles and I would personally pay for the roundtrip shipping costs.
Sure beats theoretical arguments...