Install Aperture 1.5 on 12″ Powerbook

I have a 1.33Ghz Powerbook 12″ with 768mb of ram. I just ordered a 1gb dimm which will upgrade my ram to 1.2gb of ram.

This should be plenty fast enough to run Aperture for small changes. Turns out this is what most people have discovered. After trial and error I figured that I need to at least get the thing installed first. To get around the hardware checks on installation I copied the contents of the DVD to my hard drive. Then on the command line I went into the Aperture.mpkg directory. In here you’ll find another directory called Contents, go into here. Then open Aperture.dist with a text editor. Look for a function similar to

function installationCheck()

{

.....

}

remove the contents between the { } and make it look like

function installationCheck()

{

return true;

}

Then you need to go back to the command prompt and edit the following file with vi

/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/MacOS/Aperture

Look for the following strings

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra OpenGL Engine

NVIDIA NV34MAP OpenGL Engine

Intel GMA 950

The three strings show up in two places each. In both places replace the full string, spaces and all, with a series of 1. So you’ll end up replacing the three strings with

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

1111111111111111111111111111

1111111111111

Also if you don’t have enough ram. Edit the following file to allow you to launch the software

/Applications/Aperture.app/Contents/Info.plist

I used the following two pages as references.

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-238670.html

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20051206021640416&lsrc=osxh