Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar was released on 2002.08.24 and was last updated on 2003.10.03, when the 10.2.8 update was released. There were rumors that 10.2.9 would be released in mid-2009 to address several bugs and vulnerabilities that remained in version 10.2.8, but that never happened.

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Jaguar was the first version of OS X to support Safari and the last the ship with Internet Explorer as its default browser. Apple’s release of it Safari web browser was Microsoft’s excuse to leave the Mac browser market.

Jaguar improved performance across the board, especially for Classic Mode, and introduced Quartz Extreme, which lets the operating system offload graphics tasks to supported video cards (ATI Radeon and Nvidia GeForce 2 AGP and later video with at least 16 MB of VRAM).

OS X 10.2 includes Inkwell, which ports the Newton handwriting recognition technology to the Mac. Inkwell requires a tablet. Bonjour is Apple’s technology that allows Macs to find each other and other Bonjour-aware devices without user configuration. It also improved support for Windows networks. Jaguar includes CUPS, which provides support for a lot more printers than earlier versions of OS X.

Jaguar lost one feature that had been with the Mac since the beginning – the Happy Mac startup icon (right) was replaced by a gray Apple logo.

Jaguar requires a PowerPC G3 or G4 CPU, 128 MB of RAM, and is incompatible with the Kanga PowerBook G3 – the only G3-based Mac never supported by any version of OS X. While 10.2 can run with 128 MB of RAM, 256 MB is a more realistic minimum for decent performance (the OS itself can use from 96 MB to 200 MB of RAM), and going to 512 MB or beyond will really unleash its potential.

• Jaguar List, our email list for Mac OS X 10.2 users.

Jaguar Links

• How to Recover from a Beige G3 Startup Error, Dan Knight, Mac Daniel, 2012.07.19. If you’re not careful, installing OS X 10.2 Jaguar can create an unbootable Beige Power Mac G3. How to fix it – and how to avoid the problem.
• Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Can Unleash the Power of G3 iBooks, Carl Nygren, 2008.06.17
• Internet Sharing a Breeze in OS X, Dan Knight, 2003.04.07
• Good News and Bad News About the Jaguar Update and Other Thoughts on OS X, Dan Knight, 2003.04.01
• Using Jaguar’s Finder for FTP, Alan Zisman, 2003.02.11
• Making a Bootable OS X CD, iMac Startup Problems after OS X Install, and More, Dan Knight, 2003.02.03
• The Value of a Refurbished iBook with Jaguar, Steve Watkins, 2003.01.21
• Gimp-Print to the Rescue: Letting Macs with Jaguar Print on Windows Networks, Alan Zisman, 2003.01.15
• I Switched (from OS 9 to OS X), Dan Knight, 2003.01.13. Today marks 10 days since I installed Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2.3) on my 400 MHz PowerBook G4.
• Quartz Extreme Empowers the G3, Dan Knight, 2002.12.31
• Beefing Up Windows Networking in OS X, Alan Zisman, 2002.10.07
• The Mac and Windows Compatibility, Adam Robert Guha, 2002.10.04
• Groveling: Jaguar Is Not Fat, Slow, and Deeply Flawed, Dirk Pilat, 2002.09.25
• Jaguar Joyride, Steve Watkins, 2002.09.24

Recommended Software

These are generally the latest version of these programs that run on Jaguar. Some may require Mac OS X 10.2.8, the final version of Jaguar. Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

Browsers

Browsers are listed by how up-to-date they are. We strongly recommend Opera 9.6.x (the only browser for Jaguar still being updated), Firefox 2.0.0.20, and Camino 1.0.6. Keep Internet Explorer handy just in case you find a site that requires it.

• Opera 9.6.4 – current version (June 2009), most up-to-date browser for Jaguar, Opera 10 alpha not compatible with Jaguar
• Firefox 2.0.0.20 (Dec. 2008)
• iCab 3.0.5 (Jan. 2008) – shareware, use the PowerPC version
• Camino 1.0.6 (Aug. 2007)
• Safari 1.0.3 (Aug. 2004) – installed using Software Update, update using Software Update, quite outdated
• Internet Explorer 5.2.2 (Sept. 2002) – IE 5.2 installed with Jaguar, update using Software Update, most outdated browser for Jaguar

Misc. Software

• Kompozer 0.7.10 – WYSIWYG HTML editor, based on Netscape Composer, version 0.8 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later

System Preferences

• uControl 1.3.5 – keyboard remapper, useful for swapping the Command and Option keys when using a Windows keyboard, as they are reversed from what Mac users are used to

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The instructions below are for installing PythonCard on Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar). If you are using Mac OS 10.3 (Panther), then please use these instructions instead.

Installing PythonCard on your system requires the following steps:

1. Download Python from the python.org site.
2. Download wxPython from the wxPython.org site.
3. Download PythonCard from the PythonCard site.
4. Install Python
5. Install wxPython
6. Install PythonCard
7. Confirm the installation works

Downloading Python

If you're running Jaguar then you already have Python 2.2 installed on your system, but this isn't usable with wxPython, so you'll still need to download a 'framework' build of Python.

Click on this MacPython-OSX-2.3-1.dmg link to begin the download. Most Mac OS X browsers will save the file to your desktop.

Downloading wxPython

PythonCard relies on the wxPython package. Click on this wxPythonOSX-2.5.2.8-jaguar-Py2.3.dmg link to begin the download. Again, most Mac OS X browsers will save the file to your desktop.

Downloading PythonCard

The latest version of PythonCard is always available via the PythonCard download page. Click on this PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz link to begin the download. Again, most Mac OS X browsers will save the file to your desktop.

Installing Python

Python arrives at your system as an installable disk image. All you have to do is double-click on the file you downloaded (it's called MacPython-OSX-2.3-1.dmg), then double-click the MacPython-OSX.pkg icon and follow the instructions in the installation wizard. The installer will create a new directory /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/ to contain the Python executables, documentation, tools, and standard libraries.

Installing wxPython

wxPython also comes as an installable disk image. Just double-click on the file you downloaded (it's called wxPythonOSX-2.5.2.8-jaguar-Py2.3.dmg), then double-click the wxPythonOSX-jaguar.pkg icon and follow the instructions. wxPython will be installed into /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/.

I recommend creating a wxPython folder in your Applications folder and copying the Apps, Docs, Samples, and README 1st.txt files to the wxPython folder.

Installing PythonCard

The PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz file you downloaded should automatically be decompressed by Stuffit; if the file isn't already decompressed, then double-click the PythonCard-0.8.2.tar.gz file. You should now have a PythonCard-0.8 directory on your desktop. Open the Terminal application and do a cd to that directory and then run the setup.py script using the 2.3 Python you just installed. The sudo command will prompt you for your password.

[mymachine:~] bob% cd ~/Desktop/PythonCard-0.8
[mymachine:~/Desktop/PythonCard-0.8] bob% sudo /usr/local/bin/python setup.py install

By default, the PythonCard framework will be installed into /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCard. You'll probably want to make an alias to this directory to keep on your desktop or home folder to make it easier to get to the PythonCard tools and samples.

Confirming Installation

It is important that you use the right version of Python to run wxPython and PythonCard scripts. Open the Terminal and then try running the Python that you just installed. Type Ctrl+D to exit the Python interpreter.

[mymachine:~] bob% /usr/local/bin/pythonw
Python 2.3 (#2, Jul 30 2003, 11:45:28)
[GCC 3.1 20020420 (prerelease)] on darwin
Type 'help', 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information.
>>> ^D

Apple's Jaguar build of Python was not overwritten when you did the installation and is still available as /usr/bin/python. Since by default your PATH environment variable does not contain the /usr/local/bin directory, you can still run Apple's Python as shown below.

[mymachine:~] bob% python
Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09)
[GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin
Type 'help', 'copyright', 'credits' or 'license' for more information.
>>> ^D
[mymachine:~] bob% which python
/usr/bin/python

But again, remember that wxPython and PythonCard scripts will not work with that version, so it is important when working in the Terminal to always use /usr/local/bin/pythonw.

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Configuring PythonLauncher

The default install leaves .py and .pyw files associated with the Python IDE rather than PythonLauncher which is the app used to run Python scripts from the Finder.

If you select a .py file you can choose Get Info from the File menu and then change the files to open with PythonLauncher instead of the IDE if you want to be able to double-click a file and have it run. Repeat the process for .pyw files. Alternatively, you can hold down the control key and when you click on a .py file then you can select PythonLauncher from the Open With menu item.

Acid Test

OK, now comes the acid test. Open the folder called 'minimal' in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages/PythonCard/samples. Find the icon labeled minimal.py and double-click it. In a few moments (after an operating system console window has appeared), a small window like the one shown in Figure 1 will appear. This indicates that your installation was successful and everything is working. Close the minimal application in the usual way and proceed with the Walk-Through.

Figure 1. PythonCard minimal application window open to confirm installation is correct

If for some reason this test fails, go back over these instructions carefully. In particular, make sure that wxPython and PythonCard both appear in the site-packages folder in Python's Lib folder.

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If everything seems OK and you still can't get minimal.py to launch, post a message to the PythonCard Users Mailing List. (If you aren't yet a member, visit the list management page and join.)

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