Installation on Mac OS

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A.2 Installation on Mac OS

CASA for Macintosh is distributed as self-contained Macintosh application. For installation purposes, this means that you can install CASA by simply dragging the application to your hard disk. It should be as easy as copying a file.

Download the CASA disk image for your OS version from our download site ttp://casa.nrao.edu/casa\_obtaining.stml
Open the disk image file (if your browser does not do so automatically).
Drag the CASA application to the Applications folder of your hard disk.
Eject the CASA disk image.
Double-click the CASA application to run it for the first time. This ensures everything is properly updated if you had installed a previous version.

You may need to unload the dbus before the copy will work

launchctl remove org.freedesktop.dbus-session
launchctl remove org.freedesktop.dbus-system

Versions after 12115 are 64bit only and will not work on older mac intel machines The first time you launch the CASA application, it will prompt you to set up an alias to the casapy command. You will be taken through the process of creating several casapy symbolic links, it is advisable to do so as this will allow you to run casapy from a terminal window by typing casapy. Additionally, the viewer (casaviewer), table browser (casabrowser), plotms (casaplotms), and buildmytasks will also be available via the command line. Creating the symbolic links will require that you have administrator privileges.

A.2.0.1 Using more than one Mac version of CASA

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