Cannot Install Raven Lite on Lion OS X 10.7

Problem: When I tried to install the Raven Lite program on my Mac computer (running OS X 10.7 - Lion) I got an error message saying that Lion no longer supports PowerPC applications. Raven Lite would not install. Now what do I do? I really want to use Raven Lite to see the bird's sonograms (pictures of their songs.)

Solution: Raven Lite is a separate program that Thayer Birding Software bundles on the DVD. It is a program that lets you see a picture of the bird's song. In the program there is a link to this in the Sound Recordings section of eViewer called "Spectrogram".

Raven Lite will install on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. It will also install on Macintosh Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. However, the version of Raven Lite shipped with version 4.0 and 4.5 of the Thayer Birding Software will not INSTALL on the new Lion operating system. It is just the installer package that causes a problem, not the Raven Lite program itself. In fact, if you installed Raven Lite when you were running Snow Leopard as your operating system and then later upgraded to Lion, you can use Raven Lite now without any problem!

This is easy to fix. Just go to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology web site and download the free file found there. They have invented a work-around that will install Raven Lite on your Mac Lion computer.

Information for Lion users (read this first!)

Free Mac Lion Download (Clicking this will begin the free download.)

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