How could I know the version of OS X by the installer? - macos

I have a mac os x installer and its version is 23.1. So I want to know the system version of OS X after I install it because I want to install 10.6.3 on my machine. Any ideas?

Mount the installation medium, then navigate to System/Library/CoreServices on the image/DVD (in a Terminal window). You'll find a SystemVersion.plist file there that contains the build number and version of the OS.
This will likely be build 10A432 (10.6); as far as I know, Apple doesn't distribute standalone installers for point updates. If you're in the Mac Developer Program, you can download a delta update to 10.6.3 from connect.apple.com.

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Scout not working even though Java Runtime is installed on Mac

Today my Compass/Sass stopped compiling and i was unable to get it working again. So i installed Scout. But Scout wouldn’t run until i installed Java Runtime for Mac. So I downloaded and installed Java Runtime for Mac. But when running Scout I am still prompted as if Java Runtime was never installed. I see the Java Runtime in my System Preferences so I assume it’s working?
I’m running Mac OS 10.10.1 Yosemite
Anyone know what the problem might be?
I found the solution. You need to run a legacy version of Java for some applications to still work. Here's the download link and info from Apple:
https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US
Java for OS X 2015-001 installs the legacy Java 6 runtime for OS X
10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and OS X 10.7 Lion.
This package is exclusively intended for support of legacy software
and installs the same deprecated version of Java 6 included in the
2014-001 and 2013-005 releases.
Quit any Java applications before installing this update.
I don't know Scout but you might need the older JNI (Java Native Interface) version of Java (1.6) that Apple deprecated a long time ago but is still available if you know now to find it.
The easiest way to install it is to use this command in Terminal:
/usr/libexec/java_home --task JNI --request
and follow the prompts (it will pop up a dialog box offering to install the requested version). OS X can host multiple versions of Java a once so installing this older version shouldn't affect your existing installation.

how to clone python 2.7 installation + modules + packages in Mac OS X?

I have installed python in my mac osx 10.9 computer. I have also many packages and modules installed. I want to clone that installation into another computer. Which is the way to proceed?
I do not want to re-install all of them from scratch, because I do not know exactly where/which/how those were.
Any ideas?

Pycharm 4.5 CE crashes on launch on OS X 10.8.5

I upgraded from Pycharm 4.0 (which worked fine) to 4.5 community edition on Mac OS 10.8.5.
It crashes on launch after bouncing a bit in the dock.
The log files, console, all show nothing.
I'm running java 1.6.0_65, and have Python 2.7, Jython, PyPy via Macports.
Any ideas?
Make sure you've installed Apple's Java for OS X 2014-001 (at least).
Try to delete ~/Library/Java/Extensions, see the issue IDEA-137147.
Similar to the answer for IntelliJ IDEA, if you can't delete ~/Library/Java/Extensions, i.e., because you need it's contents (likely JAI jars) as part of other applications, you can create a file, pycharm.vmoptions in ~/Library/Preferences/PyCharm40 with contents:
-Djava.ext.dirs=/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/ext
to override OSX Java 6's default behavior of checking the user's ~/Library/Java/Extensions directory in addition to the system's extensions on application start up; but only for PyCharm.

You can't open xcode because it is not supported on that Architecture?

I have install VMWARE (virtual Machine) on Windows 7. And have installed Mac OS Leopard 10.5.5 image on that Virtual Machine.
Now i want to install Xcode 5.1.1 on that Mac os, but it gives above Error. Please help me how and which version to install on that Mac OS Leopard 10.5.5.
Xcode 5.1 requires OS X 10.8 or 10.9. Xcode 3.1.4 is the latest version that runs on Leopard.
When i was programming with xcode with vmware i didn`t managed to download it from the store and make it run in vmware, what i did is i downloaded a Mac OS with preinstalled xcode in it.
Also see the vmware options!

Where is the download for mac osx on couchdb.org?

I upgraded my OSX to Lion. As I went to install couchdb locally I found that the installer link for mac on http://couchdb.apache.org was gone and replaced with "Mac OS X binaries coming soon". I haven't used couchdb before but I know it was there at one point.
A friend sent me a copy zipped up which he installed on his Snow Leopard OSX. This installed and I could access the Admin Console, but I was unable to access futon.
Is there a reason the button is missing, or is there another way to install it?
My guess is that the site is detecting my operating system and they just aren't ready for 10.7.5 yet. But How do I go about installing a local version?
To install I followed the steps in this post Couch DB installation not working on Mac OSx Lion.
It worked like a charm step by step.
The new version 1.2.1 has recently been released and packed for Mac OSX. You can download it from http://couchdb.apache.org/#download or from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/couchdb/packages/mac/1.2.1/Apache-CouchDB-1.2.1.zip

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