OS X Yosemite - Help me fix Photoshop CS5.
November 13, 2015 12:03 AM Subscribe
Today, I tried to crank up my copy of Photoshop CS5 for the first time on my machine running OS X Yosemite.
Much to my chagrin, the application won't start, instead I get an alert advising me to downgrade to JRE 1.6.x.
My machine's got JRE 1.8.x installed and there's no way I'm reverting to 1.6 just to get Photoshop to run. Googling about, I learned that Photoshop has no real Java dependency (figures) - rather this is a dependency erroneously set by Apple at install time.
I've been looking for a way to remove this spurious dependency, alas so far without success. Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
I.e., where does OS X store such dependency information? Scouring the application package I've not found anything promising. Running otool -L on the Photoshop binary does list a bunch of external executables as dependencies but mysteriously the Java runtime is not one of them.
My machine's got JRE 1.8.x installed and there's no way I'm reverting to 1.6 just to get Photoshop to run. Googling about, I learned that Photoshop has no real Java dependency (figures) - rather this is a dependency erroneously set by Apple at install time.
I've been looking for a way to remove this spurious dependency, alas so far without success. Can anyone point me in the right direction here?
I.e., where does OS X store such dependency information? Scouring the application package I've not found anything promising. Running otool -L on the Photoshop binary does list a bunch of external executables as dependencies but mysteriously the Java runtime is not one of them.
Response by poster: Thanks for that! I didn't realize it installed alongside the current version, perfect.
posted by oxidizer at 1:38 AM on November 13, 2015
posted by oxidizer at 1:38 AM on November 13, 2015
One other thing: that version of Java works on OS X versions up to El Capitan but there are rumors that it will be the last supported version. Once the next OS X comes out, those of us running CS5 and CS6 are out of luck unless we can figure a way around the Java dependency.
posted by zsazsa at 1:02 PM on November 13, 2015
posted by zsazsa at 1:02 PM on November 13, 2015
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