Installation+on+MacOS+X

=Mesquite installation for MacOS X=

System requirements: **Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, with Java 1.6 or higher**.

Instructions:
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) [|Download the latest version of Mesquite from the Mesquite Github repository.] **For Mac OS X, use the files ending in .dmg. There are two alternatives, one for Java 1.6 (recommended for OS X 10.9, Mavericks, and lower), the other for Java 1.7 and above (recommended for OS X 10.10, Yosemite, and higher).**
 * 3) 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). Its contents should be approximately as follows:
 * Mesquite_Folder
 * com/
 * corejava
 * documentation.html
 * edu/
 * examples/
 * images/
 * jars/
 * lesser.txt
 * lib/
 * mesquite/
 * Mesquite .app
 * org/
 * OtherWaysToStartMesquite
 * settings/
 * README-Starting Mesquite on Mac OS X.txt
 * 1) Double click the Mesquite icon to start Mesquite. If you don't have Java installed, you will be asked to install it.
 * 2) There are other executables to start Mesquite, within the folder OtherWaysToStartMesquite. They give you different options, for example, for amount of memory used. See the file "README-Starting Mesquite on Mac OS X.txt" for instructions.
 * 3) On Mac OS X 10.9 or below, Mesquite runs best with Java 1.6. On Mac OS X 10.0 or higher, Mesquite runs best on Java 1.7 or higher. To install Java 1.7 or higher, get it from [].

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).