Can't install Final Cut Studio 2 because "PowerPC applications are no longer supported"

Bought a brand new 15" MacBookPro OS X 10.7 2.2Ghz Intel Core i7 and tried to install Final Cut Studio 2. Got the error message "You can't open the application FinalCutStudio.mpkg because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." Oh no, does this mean I have to spend more money!???

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 5:16 PM

31 replies

Nov 30, 2015 11:23 PM in response to JeremyJohnstone

Thanks for this post Jeremy. It's December 2015 and this solution using use terminal worked perfectly for me. I'm trying to install FCP 7 (from Final Cut Studio 5.1 disks) on a Macbook running OSX 10.8.5 and your post of installing from command line solved the problem. No need to install Rosetta.

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