Install .tar.gz on MAC

Question

I failed to understand the INSTALL.md file. I know few programming knowledge. I appreciate anyone can give me a thorough explanation or instruction.

The software I wanna install is https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidavis/

Information in INSTALL.md

Mac OS X - MacPorts instructions

These notes refer to use MacPorts. Using other build environments such as HomeBrew is presumably equally as viable, but you may need to hack the config files a bit.

1. Install MacPorts.

2. Install XCode and XCode command line tools

3. If you want to be able to run your build on an earlier version of MacOSX than your build machine, see How to build a Macintosh executable that will run on older versions of MacOSX.

4. Install the prerequisites for scidavis.

• port install qt4-mac qwt52 qwtplot3d boost gsl py27-pyqt4 py-pyqwt py27-sip muparser
  Sadly, you may need to do this step multiple times before eveything is installed

4. link sip-2.7 share directory to where sip expects it to be:

ln -sf /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/share/sip /opt/local/share/py27-sip

5. Add qt's bin directory to your PATH

• PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/libexec/qt4/bin:$PATH

6. Configure scidavis

• qmake CONFIG+=osx_dist

7. Build scidavis

• make qmake
• make

8. Create the installable package

• sh mkMacDist.sh

Thanks in advance

Solution

If you are trying to install a tar.gz files you must first run gunzip on the file. gunzip filename. This should give you a .tar file. To open the tar file run: tar -x filename.tar.

Comments

[Natsfan]

What is your question.

[Natsfan]

what are you trying to install? i'd be happy to help you if i can.

[Daniel Liu]

Thanks for your kindness. The software is sourceforge.net/projects/scidavis

[Daniel Liu]

Thanks for your kindness. The software is sourceforge.net/projects/scidavis