Advance Statistics and SPSS

am taking the Advance Statistics course this period and required to work w/ SPSS.

This is my second day playing around w/ the installation of SPSS on my Mac

I happened to find that SPSS is no longer allowed working in Mac system by Apple, Inc

*phewww*

Sooo, am playing around w/ the command-prompt in Mac Terminal

a little manipulation in Java Machine Preferences and now am hoping the damn-tricky-complicated SPSS installation will be working well

Thank you Benny-boi! you are SUPER-helpful.

he told me to

1. Get the previous Java version in Leopard (mine is Snow Leopard now)

cd/tmp/

curl -o java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/isdal/snow_leopard_workaround/java.1.5.0-leopard.tar.gz

tar -xvzf java.1.5.0-leopard.tar

2. Move it to my System Java folder

sudo mv 1.5.0/system/library/frameworks/javaVM.framework/versions/1.5.0-leopard

3. Tell OS X that java 5 actually is java 6

cd/system/library/frameworks/javaVM.framework/versions/

sudo rm 1.5.0

sudo ln -s 1.5.0-leopard 1.5.0

sudo rm 1.5

sudo ln -s 1.5.0 1.5

4. Change the properties to use Java 5 32-bit by default

and try to re-run the installation...