Mesquite installation for MacOS

(Please email Wayne Maddison (wmaddisn@u.arizona.edu) with questions or comments about downloading Mesquite).

Download this for running Mesquite on the Mac OS:

For Macintosh OS 8 or 9

Requirements: MRJ 2.2 (www.apple.com/java)

Instructions: Download and unstuff the .sit file above. This will create a folder approximately as follows:

To start Mesquite, you can double click either the icon "Mesquite OS 9", or double click a data file in "example files".

NOTE: If you have a previous version of Mesquite installed in your system, we advise that you delete it before running the new version.

For Mac OS X

Requirements: OS X 10.2 recommended; 10.1 with java update 1 has some especially frustrating bugs; Mesquite is more or less unusable with OS X 10.0.

Instructions: Download and unstuff the .sit file above. This will create a folder approximately as follows:

To start Mesquite, you can double click either the icon "Mesquite OSX", or double click a data file in "examples".

NOTE: If you have a previous version of Mesquite installed in your system, we advise that you delete it before running the new version.

More details of issues of using Mesquite under Mac OS X are described in the Support page.


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