Pycharm 3.4 will not work in Yosemite

Question

Pycharm 3.4 (new installation) will not work on Yosemite with Apple JDK 1.6:

Crashed Thread: 32 Java: AWT-EventQueue-0 Dyld Error Message: Symbol not found: _CGContextSetAllowsAcceleration Referenced from: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0_65-b14-462.jdk/Contents/Libraries/libawt.jnilib Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices 

There are recommendations to switch to Oracle JDK 1.7, but since it is recommended to use the 1.6 kernel, I would prefer to stick with this version.

Answer 1

Just download and install the new update for Apple Java 1.6. At the moment, the latest update was Java for OS X 2014-001 .

Answer 2

Edit this file: / Applications / PyCharm \ CE.app/Contents/Info.plist

vi / Applications / PyCharm \ CE.app/Contents/Info.plist

EDIT:

 <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.6*</string> 

TO:

 <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.8*</string> 

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Answer 3

For PyCharm 4 on Mac OS X Yosemite:

• Edit / Applications / [PyCharm application name] /Contents/Info.plist

• Find and replace -

this is

 <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.6*</string> 

with

  <key>JVMVersion</key> <string>1.8*</string> 

Answer 4

Install Java 6 from Apple .

From the Jetbrains Blog :

Modifying Info.plist will violate the digital signature of the application and prevent the patch from updating. We do not recommend modifying the Info.plist file to run under JDK 1.7 or 1.8.

There are several important issues with modern versions of JDK versions 1.7 and 1.8. We cannot, by default, use the new version of the JDK until these problems are resolved.