Symptom
When you open AppleWorks 6 an alert box with the following error message appears:
"The application 'AppleWorks 6' could not be opened because 'CarbonLib' could not be found"
Solution
Install CarbonLib 1.0.2 or higher.
You can use the AppleWorks First Run program in the AppleWorks Essentials folder to install CarbonLib 1.0.2 and other system extensions required by AppleWorks. Later versions of CarbonLib are available.
- If your computer has Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS 8.6.1, you can download a later version of CarbonLib from http://www.apple.com/swupdates/ .
- If your computer has Mac OS 9 use the Software Update control panel to update to a later version.
What is CarbonLib?
"Carbon" is a set of programming interfaces that developers use to create software for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. CarbonLib is a system extension that allows a Carbon-based application to be used with Mac OS 8.1 or later.
For more information on Carbon, see the Apple Developer Web site:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/carbon/carbon.html