Installing labview 8.0 on OS X Yosemite

[madore]

Hi,

I'm trying to install labview 8.0 PDS on my macbook with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), from a original academic license CD-ROM copy at work, but I always receive an error message, saying that there are some trouble during "run postinstall script for Labview 8.0".

I've tried to make a custom installation without NI-VISA and NI-488.2, but the problem still remains.

If someone can help me, 

Thank you,

M.

[madore]

I realise that everything was installed on my computer (on Applications I found National instruments folder, with everything inside (maybe not, and it's a partial installation)) but I cannot run LABVIEW 8.0 because "powerpc is not supported even more".

Does someone know a solution?

Thank you,

M.

[rolfk · Accepted solution]

I'm not that familiar with the different LabVIEW versions for MacOS X but as far as I know, LabVIEW 8.0 was still PPC only. LabVIEW 8.2 was the first to support Intel Macintosh computers! So it will be basically impossible to get 8.0 working on your Mac, even if you could get it installed.

You would have to go back to at least MacOS X 10.6. Until Mac OS X 10.5.x, Rosetta the PPC emulation layer for Intel Macs, was by default installed with the OS. In 10.6 it could be optionally installed with the Apple Software Update service. From 10.7 on onwards it is not supported anymore.

[madore]

Ok, I were thinking something like this (that is was going to be impossible without simulating/installing another OS), so I'm going to try with another OS X version or maybe with Windows and bootcamp. It should work.

Thank you for your fast answer! I'll assume it as solved.

M.