Mesquite installation for MacOS X
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.10 or higher, with Java 1.8 or higher required. (Java 1.8 is also called Java 8.) Mesquite may or may not run on older systems. If you have a newer version of the MacOS, you may need to install the Java JDK rather than the JRE.
Instructions:
- If you have an older version of Mesquite, you may want to delete it (by deleting Mesquite_Folder), so as to avoid getting confused as to what version of Mesquite is starting up. First, however, you may want to take from Mesquite_Folder/mesquite any third party packages (e.g., PDAP, TreeSetViz) before deleting the directory.
- Download the latest version of Mesquite from the Mesquite Github repository.
- If the downloaded file doesn't mount into a disk image automatically, double click it to mount. You will see a Mesquite_Folder. Drag this Mesquite_Folder to your hard drive (e.g., your Applications folder). (It may not work correctly if you leave it on the dmg disk image.) Its contents should be approximately as follows:
- Mesquite_Folder
- com/
- corejava
- documentation.html
- edu/
- examples/
- images/
- jars/
- lesser.txt
- lib/
- mesquite/
- Mesquite_Starter.app [There may be several different versions of this, with slightly different names]
- Mesquite_Starter_INSTRUCTIONS-macOS.txt
- mesquite.jar
- org/
- RunningOptionsForFlex/
- settings/
- start/
- Double click one of the Mesquite_Starter icons to start Mesquite. If you don't have Java installed, you may be asked to install it.
- Which Mesquite_Starter should you use? We offer several different versions because the diversity of macOS versions and Java versions make it too challenging to provide you a single solution. The different versions of Starters also provide different amounts of memory. Try them, and see what works.
- For more complete instructions about starting Mesquite and what can go wrong, see the file Mesquite_Starter_INSTRUCTIONS-macOS.txt.
More details of issues of using Mesquite under Mac OS X are described in the Support page.
(Please email us (info {at} mesquiteproject.org) with questions or comments about downloading Mesquite).