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Still having issues with enabling JAVA on my Mac to run Panoply

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Anonymous, modified 3 Years ago.

Still having issues with enabling JAVA on my Mac to run Panoply

I installed open JDK11 but am not sure how to run it so that Panoply will open. I am still getting this error message when I try to open Panoply: "This application requires that Java 9 or later be installed on your computer. Please download and install the latest version of Java from www.adoptopenjdk.net and try again." 

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Anonymous, modified 3 Years ago.

RE: Still having issues with enabling JAVA on my Mac to run Panoply

My email is chart16@alaska.edu

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Jennifer Sevadjian, modified 3 Years ago.

RE: Still having issues with enabling JAVA on my Mac to run Panoply

Youngling Posts: 15 Join Date: 6/13/17 Recent Posts

What happens when you type java -version into a terminal window?

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Anonymous, modified 3 Years ago.

RE: Still having issues with enabling JAVA on my Mac to run Panoply

We worked on this over email and Google meet and were able to get Panoply setup. I'm posting the solution here on the forum for others.
 
Panoply offers a few different install options for Mac.
  
 
There are some troubleshooting tips for mac on the download page as well:

On macOS: Panoply has been notarized in order to work with the heightened security settings of macOS 10.14.5 and later. However, it is possible that Panoply might fail to launch if your Java installation is not so notarized, in which case you may see an error window stating that Panoply requires that Java 9 be installed. If so, you might try installing a more recent Java, built after August 2019.

Some users who have a second display attached to their Mac have reported Panoply does not respond after they select an input file via the filechooser dialog. If you experience this, please download and try the version above labeled (JFC), which uses the Java filechooser.

There have been reports that Panoply for macOS fails to launch on recent Macs built with "M1 silicon" ARM chips. If this is the case for you, you should instead be able to use the "generic" PanoplyJ version and launch Panoply from the Terminal shell.

 

I use the recommendation to run the "generic" version from the terminal. To do that you would remove your current Panoply install and then download this version 

Here are some rough instructions.
 
You unpack the tgz file (I think you just double-click on it, or something like that).
Open a terminal window. From spotlight search start typing terminal and it will come up, click enter and terminal will open.
Then we probably have to set the .sh file to be executable (we only need to do this once on install):
  • From terminal, navigate to your extracted panoply folder for example:  cd ~/Downloads/PanoplyJ
  • type ls -l to see the files and their settings (there should be a readme, a jars folder, a panoply.sh file and a panoply_macos.sh file)
  • type chmod +x panoply_macos.sh to make that file executable
Then try running panoply from the terminal by typing:
./panoply_macos.sh