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Implications of the statement: "Note that it is very difficult to remove Rosetta 2 once it is installed"

When attempting to install an app built for Intel Macs on an Apple Silicon Mac, I encounter the following message: Note that it is very difficult to remove Rosetta 2 once it is installed What does ...
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Force SDKMAN! to install for Intel versions on ARM (Apple Silicon) Macs?

SDKMAN! does a great job of identifying that the running Mac has an Apple Silicon (ARM) chip and filtering its offerings accordingly. For example, sdk list java shows only JDK product for the M1/M2/M3 ...
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How to install Rosetta 2 manually? [duplicate]

Rosetta installation dialog is shown when install application which needs Rosetta to run. But how can I install Rosetta without such an application? Rosetta is not available in App Store.
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Drawbacks to apply Rosetta to all apps

On Macbooks with M1 chip (arm64) , Rosetta2 is a translator from Intel x86 to M1 silicon chip. In order to install Rosetta on your Macbook, enter in the Terminal softwareupdate --install-rosetta When ...
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How can I run a script in Rosetta from terminal on M1 Mac? [duplicate]

How can I run a shell/bash/zsh script in Rosetta from Terminal without having the Terminal being opened in Rosetta?
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How to determine the architecture of running process from the command line

I would like to get the architecture of running processes from the command line (similarly to the "Kind" column in the Activity Monitor).
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What is the 'CarbonComponentScannerXPC' process? Do I have a way to remove it?

I am using a m1 MacBook Pro and do not want any intel applications. Therefore all apps I install are either universal or plain arm64. But rosetta2 is still activated because ms office 2019 which ...
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Apple Silicon: /usr/bin/mandoc: Bad CPU type in executable

I recently upgraded from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac. When running man ssh then hitting Q in Terminal it throws the following error: sh: /usr/bin/mandoc: Bad CPU type in executable My guess ...
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Playing League of Legends on an external monitor with Apple silicon (display glitchiness)

I just bought myself a 14" MacBook Pro (M1 Pro), which I use as my personal computer, including for casually playing League of Legends (a popular MOBA game). I am connected to an external display ...
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How to tell if M1 Mac has Rosetta installed?

I am trying to run only native software. So I would like to be able to monitor whether Rosetta 2 is available or not. I am not asking if Rosetta 2 is running. I am asking if Rosetta 2 is present, is ...
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Conditionally run program using Rosetta 2 on M1 Mac

Is it possible to start a program using the command line in a way that has it run by Rosetta 2, without having the application setting that forces the program to always be running under Rosetta 2. e.g....
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How am I running x86_64 programs without arch on Apple Silicon?

After getting an M1 MacBook Air, I wanted to install some command-line packages. Following this blog post, I duplicated Terminal.app and set it to run with Rosetta. Using this x86_64 terminal, I ...
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Tell if running process is running under Rosetta or is M1-native by Command Line

If you have an M1-based Macbook you can tell if a process running on the machine is Apple/M1 or Intel/Rosetta in Activity Monitor, but is there a way to get this information on the command line? I'd ...
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Does MacOS on M1 prioritise arm binaries later on path?

I'm trying to nix my new M1 Mac with home-manager and I'm thinking I might wanna skip xcode devtools altogether. I've installed nix and home-manager and built a generation with git, but: viktor@...
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Run everything in Rosetta 2 on Silicon Mac

I've recently started using a Silicon MacBook Pro 13 (i.e. one with non-Intel processor). I have found installing some software difficult, for example installing Python through Homebrew and installing ...
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Open with Rosetta not available

I've just downloaded Visual Studio Code ( 1.51.1 ) on an Apple Silicon MBP. I downloaded the Intel version (the ARM version is still in dev I think) assuming that I would have to right click and ...
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How does Rosetta 2 work?

I'd love to understand more about how Rosetta 2 works. The Apple Developer article is brief. Has anyone done a deep analysis on how Rosetta 2 works, how it is invoked and whether it's possible to use ...
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Can an application that requires JRE 6 run in Rosetta 2?

I have an application I'd like to run on a new MacBook Air that has as one of its requirements installing Apple JRE 6. Prior to Apple Silicon, this would've been as simple as installing it from Apple'...
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