Mesquite installation for Windows

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NOTE: If you previously installed an older version of Mesquite, we recommend you delete the Mesquite_Folder directory before installing the new version. First, however, you may want to take from Mesquite_Folder/mesquite any third party packages (e.g., PDAP, TreeSetViz) before deleting the directory.

In order to run Mesquite, you must have Java installed on your computer. We recommend you install the latest version of Java before installing Mesquite (java.sun.com). Java Standard Edition 5.0 is suitable (JRE 5.0).

Instructions:

1. Download the Mesquite Installer
2. Run the installer. It runs as a wizard. Once it is done, you should see a Mesquite folder something like this:
   
   
   
3. The file "Mesquite" with the icon is the Mesquite executable. Double click this to start Mesquite.

Misbehavior of Mesquite under Windows

At least under older versions of Windows and Java, the menus of Mesquite may occasionally show incorrect headings (this is apparently due to a bug in the Java Virtual machine, not due to a bug in Mesquite). For this reason there is a Reset Menus item in the File menu; it should help restore the correct menus.

More details of issues of using Mesquite under Windows are described in the Support page.