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Q: Installing Live Type Only

I know Live Type was not distributed in FCP 7, but I'm running FCP 7 on a Mavericks Late 2012 Intel iImac.

I want to install Live Type from my installation disks for FCP 6.


I had it installed on the same iMac under Yosemite, but I found out that Motion will not work under Yosemite, so I wiped the HD and installed Mavericks. Installed FCP 7 and everything works fine, but I would like to install Live Type from FCP 6 because I do use that for some quick projects,

 

When I try to install it I get the message...

 

"You can’t open the application “FinalCutStudio.mpkg” because PowerPC applications are no longer supported."

 

This is self-explanatory, but my question/problem is I that i ran the same installer on the same iMac but the OS installed at the time was Yosemite. It installed with no problems.

 

So why will this installer run under Yosemite but not Mavericks?

 

Thanks in advance;

 

Steve Cohen

iMac, iOS 9.3.2, Actually 10.9.5

Posted on Jun 20, 2016 6:51 AM

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  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Jun 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to Sacohen9665
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    Jun 20, 2016 10:04 AM in response to Sacohen9665

    Because Rosetta was dropped in Mavericks, and Rosetta was the key to running Power PC stuff on later hardware/OS.

    Note that the problem is apparently that the installer requires Rosetta, but the actual software may work.

    There are workarounds for getting around this problem, either search the forum here or use Google.

    There are a cult of people with various schemes to do this installation, but have never done it myself so can't verify personally that it works, but

    people report it does.

     

    MtD

  • by Sacohen9665,

    Sacohen9665 Sacohen9665 Jun 20, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jun 20, 2016 10:31 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    I understand what you are saying, but if that is the case then why did it install on Yosemite?

  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Jun 20, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Sacohen9665
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    Jun 20, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Sacohen9665

    Yes, you are correct, I miss-read your question.

    In the case of the correct installation, was that an installation from disc or did you migrate the application from a previous installation?

     

    MtD

  • by Sacohen9665,

    Sacohen9665 Sacohen9665 Jun 20, 2016 11:11 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jun 20, 2016 11:11 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    It was an installation from a Disk Image.
    The Same Disk Image that was use to install it on Yosemite.

     

    Do you think it might have something to do with the order it was installed?

    When I installed in on Yosemite. I ran the FCP installer first and choose Live Type only,then when that was done I installed FCP 7.

    On Mavericks I installed FCP 7 and then went to run the FCP 6 installer and choose Live Type only.

  • by Sacohen9665,

    Sacohen9665 Sacohen9665 Jun 22, 2016 9:53 AM in response to Sacohen9665
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    Jun 22, 2016 9:53 AM in response to Sacohen9665

    Resolved.
    Installed Rosetta from a copy of Snow Leopard and then it installed with no problem.