I've been using Pentaho Data Integration with Oracle database for many years as a Windows user...

But recently I received a brand, new Macbook (M1, actually Ventura 13.0.1).

People say "Mac is great, everything works with it out of the box". Yeah, right.

So I downloaded Pentaho 8.2, copied files into my apps folder, typed ./spoon.sh into my terminal and...

Out of the box... ?

So I started looking and I've found this really useful article https://sebacode.medium.com/install-pentaho-on-mac-m1-5da846689a4e

Basically, it's enough, but if you're a total Macbook newbie (like I still am) you might need a few more details :)

1. It doesn't work with Pentaho 9.3. Download version 8.2 - it should work ok. Link is here https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Pentaho%208.2/

2. Install Java OpenJDK 8, and get exactly this one https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=8 I downloaded "jdk8u352-b08" .pkg

3. Install it, installation will tell you that Java will be installed into the location /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk/Contents/Home. It's fine.

4. Set your java home environment variable to this location. I use zsh so I've set it in /usr/your_username/.zshrc file (file can be hidden)

   

5. Create a new terminal profile.

• open your terminal

• go to Settings

• create a new profile and call it e.g "Rosetta Intel"

  

  • go to the "shell" tab and set everything exactly like below

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• now, open a new terminal window with the new profile "Rosetta intel"

  

  (if there is no such option, first open your default terminal - after that options should appear)

• go to your PDI files location and replace /libswt/osx64/swt.jar file with this one -https://mega.nz/file/VFhgnS6I#s4zUK81rXGdXcpJMuzUvDOHoixZmAl4jyXd0yMU11F0 (same link a provided on https://sebacode.medium.com/install-pentaho-on-mac-m1-5da846689a4e )

• inside your terminal with "Rosetta Intel" profile go to your PDI files location and run Pentaho