Installing Pentaho with M1 macOS

No, it’s not out-of-the-box as they say.

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Penta-who?

Pentaho is famous for it’s ETL capability. But for more info read it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaho

The Problem I Had with M1 Chip macOS

After trying to install the “out-of-the-box” app and getting the Java8… I ended up with this error:

herman@hmenorjr ~/Downloads/data-integration $ ./spoon.sh java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons: no swt-cocoa-4940r23 in java.library.path: [./../libswt/osx64/] no swt-cocoa in java.library.path: [./../libswt/osx64/] Can't load library: /Users/herman/.swt/lib/macosx/aarch64/libswt-cocoa-4940r23.jnilib Can't load library: /Users/herman/.swt/lib/macosx/aarch64/libswt-cocoa.jnilib Can't load library: /Users/herman/.swt/lib/macosx/aarch64/libswt-cocoa-4940r23.jnilib at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:338) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.Library.loadLibrary(Library.java:257) at org.eclipse.swt.internal.C.<clinit>(C.java:19) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.<clinit>(Display.java:107) at org.pentaho.di.ui.core.widget.OsHelper.setAppName(OsHelper.java:106) at org.pentaho.di.ui.spoon.Spoon.main(Spoon.java:652) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566) at org.pentaho.commons.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:92) herman@hmenorjr ~/Downloads/data-integration $ java --version openjdk 11.0.19 2023-04-18 OpenJDK Runtime Environment Homebrew (build 11.0.19+0) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Homebrew (build 11.0.19+0, mixed mode)

What I did to Install

Pentaho App

Download and config the app.

1. Download the tool: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Pentaho-9.2/client-tools/pdi-ce-9.2.0.0-290.zip/download
2. Unzip it (of course) in /Applications/ and you should see a folder data-integration/
3. Execute this command: /data-integration/libswt/osx64/and delete swt.jar
4. Download this file and put it where the swt.jar were deleted: 2.06 MB file on MEGA (Do not rename it)

Java

Now the app is set, time for the JDK.

1. Download and install Java 8 compatible with M1 HERE
2. Configure your terminal, I’m currently ~/.zshrc so I’m updating that by opening the file in terminal and adding this in it:

export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/temurin-8.jdk/Contents/Home

Terminal

Config macOS’ console/terminal/command prompt or whatever you call it.

1. Open the terminal’s setting.
2. Copy any profiles you want. Mine, I copied Homebrew and renamed it “Intel Terminal”

1. Go to “Shell” tab and put this in the “Run Command” field:

env /usr/bin/arch -x86_64 /bin/zsh --login

2. Uncheck “Run inside shell”

1. Restart the terminal.
2. To start Pentaho, execute this command in the terminal:

cd /Applications/data-integration/

3.Then execute: ./spoon.sh

That should do it!

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