Is it a Universal App?
How can I tell, other than doing a Get Info if an application is Universal Binary?
iMacs: 20" MacTel; 500 & 400 MHz PowerPC G3s, Mac OS X (10.4.7)
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Because the packaging or the website had the Apple Universal ying/yang logo next to the Mac OS X logo when you bought it?
I'll use program name "iTunes" as an example.
Here's how you can tell if it's PPC, Intel or Both.
Go to "Go" on the Menu bar, click Utilities and open the terminal.
Then issue the following command, replacing the name "iTunes" with your program:
lipo -info /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
It will output:
Architectures in the fat file: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes are: ppc i386
Now if the file you're looking at has ppc and i386 (intel) then its a universal binary, but if it only has one of them then it is only for that platform.
Here's how you can tell if it's PPC, Intel or Both.
Go to "Go" on the Menu bar, click Utilities and open the terminal.
Then issue the following command, replacing the name "iTunes" with your program:
lipo -info /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
It will output:
Architectures in the fat file: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes are: ppc i386
Now if the file you're looking at has ppc and i386 (intel) then its a universal binary, but if it only has one of them then it is only for that platform.
If you want to do it at the command line, the "file" command will do it.
I'm trying to follow your instructions and it works on applications with a single name. How do I get this to work with an application that has a multi part name example: Font Book (even though this is not the application I am looking at).
Help me with the command line command. It's been a couple years since playing in the backend.
I can get into Terminal and drag/drop the file but all it does is tell what directory it is in. How does one execute the "file" command? If I type file or -file and drag/drop I do not get anything other than "directory:"
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Is it a Universal App?