Getting Woopra Installed on Your Mac
For weeks now, I’ve been wishing and hoping I could find a way to get the Woopra desktop client installed on my Macbook. As most of you know, you have to have version 1.6 Java Virtual Machine to run Woopra. Well, last night, I figured it out!
For those who don’t know what Woopra is, feel free to click here to learn more.
While I was researching other websites that explained how to install Woopra on a Mac, everything that I was reading was still not allowing it to work on mine. I then came across a wonderful website that provided an additional step and voila: it works!
From my understanding, this only works on Intel Macs running Tiger or Leopard!!!
Please feel free to add a comment or email me if these instructions do not make sense.
(1) Download the Woopra Desktop Client here. Once you’ve downloaded it, COPY THE INSTALL IMAGE TO YOUR DESKTOP (in other words, copy the .dmg file to your computer). After you’ve copied this to your desktop, right-click your mouse on the Woopra Install image. You will then click on “Show Package Contents”. Open the file under the contents folder titled Info.plist. In your text-editor, you will need to change the following:
Under the line <key>JVMVersion</key> change “<string>1.3+</string>” to “<string>1.6+</string>” (w/o the parenthesis)
Once you’ve changed this key, save the Info.plist and you’re done with that (for now). DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL WOOPRA JUST YET. THERE’S MORE TO DO.
(2) As of yesterday, you can download the correct Java version directly from Apple - it’s super easy. Go here to download the file. (I was just informed of this today, after I already installed Woopra. I guess Apple just released the version of Java that we’ve been needing for Woopra yesterday.)
(4) Install the new Java software. After you install, though, there’s one more step (this is where I kept getting caught up). You have to tell your Mac to begin using this version of Java rather than the other, previously installed versions of Java OR Woopra will not install correctly and you’ll get errors. To do this, on your Mac, go to Applications->Utilities->Java->Java Preferences.
(5) On the General tab, under Java Applet Runtime Settings, select “Java SE 6″. You will then re-arrange the list of Java versions so that Java SE 6 is the top item. Click Save. I PERSONALLY REBOOTED MY MACBOOK BEFORE I COMPLETED STEP #6!!!
(6) Now, you should be able to install Woopra on your Mac. It worked just fine for me! I’d love to hear your comments and let me know if this helped you!
Feel free to leave a comment below if you need help or email me here.
Tags: Apple, Fix, How-To, Java SE 6, Mac, Woopra
April 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Woopra is amazing! I've been trying for a few weeks now to install Woopra and I've been trying a bunch of different solutions, none of which were working. There was the possibility of booting up an old Dell to do the job but that would have been a pain. These instructions worked really well. I just realized that the link for the direct download from Apple is now dead, though. I downloaded the latest update yesterday from a link in a TUAW post and that's dead too. All I get is a not found message from Apple. Does anyone know of an alternate way to download it because it looks like the old link has been removed? Great post, Jeff! You should do more tech help stuff.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Just got woopra installed. Finally. Waited forever to get accepted into the beta program, only to not be able to install it on my mac. These instructions worked like a charm. I noticed the java update appeared in the Mac's software update today. As far as finding the actual package on apple's site. You're right, all the links on the internet are broken. Though I was able to simply search apple's site for Java SE 6. Here's the current link as of this post: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/appli...
April 30th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Thanks so much for working so hard to get this figured out. The demand is high, so we'll be pointing people your way on Brief 355.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I can't get this to work! I'm running 10.4.11 but I can't install the Java file. Help?
April 30th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
As I said to you on Twitter. Thanks a ton for this post. I would have been spinning my wheels for hours trying to figure this out. Woopra is amazing. Only mistake I made was forgetting to put Java 6 on the top of the list in prefs. This is a must!
April 30th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
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May 1st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Woopra is great! Thank you a lot, Jeff! The errors that I were getting was because Java SE 6 is on top for Application Runtime, or it does not work.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Thanks dazex! Appreciate the link!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Thanks Neal! Appreciate it!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Hmmm, I'm assuming you will need to have 10.5.1 per Woopra's requirement. Sorry Karen!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 am
That was my mistake too, Ross! Thanks for the comment.
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 am
You're most welcome! Thanks for the comment Max!
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
I have Woopra running on a PC laptop and it is great. I wanted it on my Mac powerbook, which runs Leopard but is not a 64 bit Intel. Bummer!
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
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May 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Jeff, this is awesome stuff — totally solved my issues. Now, if you can also get the Woopra WordPress plugin to work…
May 6th, 2008 at 2:02 am
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May 6th, 2008 at 8:49 am
Hey there - thanks! I'm glad it's working for almost everyone. The Woopra Wordpress plugin works for me? What is it saying for yours?
May 6th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Oddly enough, nothing: it just sits there with only the setup options (website ID, track admin area checkbox, auto tagging checkbox, "update" button) — no actual data. Although I'm not sure it's actually supposed to display data on my Wordpress dashboard…any idea? Either way, the desktop one works great, so thanks again — and let me know if there's something else to be done on the WordPress one.
May 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am
Is there a java version for us running 32 bit systems? I tried the above but couldnt install on my intal mac mini running 10.5.2
May 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I just tried to go to the link for Apple to get java and I got Hmm, the page you’re looking for can’t be found.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Oops! If I knew that people don't know how to install AND ACTIVATE a new Java version I's written about that in my own blog article about Woopra (http://meta.wops.de/2008/05/woopra-rulez/) a few days ago, too! So, Jeff, thanks for pointing that out, I'll add it there, too (for us Germans …).
May 7th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
AJ, the link was changed unexpectedly. I've fixed the link. It's also here: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/appli...
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May 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Hey Jeff, First of all, thanks for writing this up. I know that all of the other Woopra users really appreciate the assistance, and just wanted to let you know that I do to! I just used a Mac for the first time in my life today and decided to try and load Woopra. So I followed your directions explicitly and got it working! Thanks again, John
May 11th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
John, What a great comment! THANK YOU. You are exactly why I write this blog.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Is there a way to make woopra run on a Tiger machine? Great tutorial, when I upgrade I'll follow it best regards from Sao Paulo, Brazil
May 13th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I'm having trouble with 10.4 too. Can't wait to get this working…
May 15th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
The real problem is: will Apple ever release a 32bit Java 6 version for the Intel Core Duo (non-Core-2-Duo) early MacBook & MacBook Pro users???
May 17th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Thank you for this description! This way it worked for me!
May 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Jeff, thanks to you, I've finally got the Woopra Desktop app running. Very good directions; there was just one point where my computer didn't match your directions. On a right-click on the .dmg, I didn't get an option for "Show Package Contents". This may well be configuration issue on my machine, since no one else ran into this. I was able to just directly edit the .dmg file using TextEdit, which worked fine. Thanks again!
May 21st, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Thanks much for posting this!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Thanks, this made all the difference! I'm excited to give Woopra a try; I've checked out many analytics tools but still haven't found one that really "clicks" for me. Muchas gracias.
May 25th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Hi thanks for your help, but I am unable to save my text edit file, it says that file does not exist when I try to save. Any advice?
May 25th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Jabiz, I have no idea why you're getting that error. The only thing I can think of is are you sure you're moving the Woopra install (.dmg file) TO YOUR DESKTOP?
June 5th, 2008 at 7:12 am
I had this problem too, its a permissions error. Mount the .dmg file from your desktop, then move the .app file it contains to the desktop. Then once the .app file is on the desktop, Go Show Package Contents from there. .dmg files have strange permissions. Hope this helps, it worked for me.
June 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
It was more than easy, thanks. I only had to change the java prefs
June 5th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Genius! Thanks a ton Jeff. Worked like a charm.
June 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thanks a lot for your help. You Rock!
June 8th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Thank you! I was having trouble installing this. All I needed to do was choose which version of Java to use.
June 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Awesome - you are a genius. I followed your instruction but still had a problem until I realized whet you meant by rearrange the various JAVAs so that 6 was on top.
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June 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
first of all thanks for you description how to install woopra
As well understandable for girls 
But now i have a other problem. On some pages like rapidshare.com i get the error that i shall install the right Java Version. Does have anyone a trick or so how i can still further use that site? i think they changed something cause days ago it worked and since 2 days i get this error.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 am
After not being able to install Woopra several times, I followed your instructions and was able to get Woopra working.
Thank you!
July 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Thanks for the excellent problem-solving advice. Now that I see what the Woopra desktop client can do, I’m blown away.
Mary
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Will it work on MacBooks that ARE NOT 64bit? I couldn’t get the java to install on my Macbook, when I tried it a few months ago, because it’s not a 64bit intel Macbook. Does this get around that?
July 28th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
You da man! Thanks. I am not that much of a techie, but had no problem with your instructions. Thanks for the good service. Sleep well!
August 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 am
hi jeff
thanks four advice
got woopra installed like you suggested
logged in but it doesn’t seem to be working
it s not updatinf any stats - just shows all zeros like no visitors
what do we need to to get it wrking?
thanks for all your help and advice
cindy
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
Cindy,
You still need to be approved by Woopra and have your site added… to do that, you will need to go to http://www.woopra.com and go from there.
Thanks for adding a comment!
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
hi jeff
thanks for your message
yes, we have already been approved by woopra and only proceeded to do this after we received their invitation code etc.
when we log in to members area it does show our ID and all that but nothing else like stats, tracking etc
it s not updating any stats - just shows all zeros like no visitors
what do we need to to get it working?
is there any other software we need to get - note soemthing about plug ins - by the way we use MAC systems
trying to do this MACBOOK Intel 2.4 ghz ne machine
any and all comments/suggestions welcomed
thanks for all your help and advice
much appreciated
cindy
August 3rd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Cindy,
Sounds like you didn’t add the Woopra javascript code to your blog. Woopra has “how-to’s” on all of that, that’s not my expertise, sorry. If you have a Wordpress blog like I do, you simply just install the Woopra Plugin.
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
hi jeff
thanks for your message and suggestions
sorry I am new to all this and
no , we don’ tave a blog on our site but
assuming we can add this Woopra javascript code on just our normal web pages
does one add it to all pages on the website or does woopra work only if you have a blog??
thanks for all your help and advice
much appreciated
cindy
August 4th, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Cindy -
You just need a website and you need to read Woopra’s instructions… it tells you where to add the javascript code (I believe it’s just on the index.php/index.html file) and then it will work once you’re approved. Again, go to Woopra’s website (www.woopra.com) and you should be able to get your answers there.