How to install SunSPOT on a Mac

In JavaOne this year I was lucky enough to get my hands on a SunSPOT (thank you Sun). SunSPOTs are small programmable devices that have a JVM installed and can be programmed in Java. Installing SunSPOTs on Mac (I am running Tiger) it’s pretty straight-forward. The step by step instructions are

• Install the XCode tools if they are not installed already. This is a very basic step since if you don’t install them the SunSPOT installer will most probably hang with a “Relocating updated Ant” message.
• Run the SunSPOTSDKInstaller.jar file from the CD that comes with the SunSPOT box.
• If you get the following error message “UUCP Group Membership for <username>: Failed!” you can try the following commands:
  • sudo mkdir /var/spool/uucp
  • sudo chmod 775 /var/spool/uucp/
    (these two commands seemed to do the trick for me)
• Then re-run the SunSPOTSDKInstaller.jar file.

That’s it, the SunSPOT software should install now.