Click the lock icon, type password if it asks for it, and then click on 'Allow'.7-Zip is designed for creating or unpacking archived and compressed files.

Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General tab.

However, if you see this there is one more step:

At this point, open a new terminal tab, and type the name of the program (the file you moved in steps 4), terminal should recognise the program.

Open another finder window ( command + n), navigate to this location /usr/local/bin, and place the executable file you found in the previous step in this new location (you can do this using the mac terminal if you prefer - here's a random example showing show).

One of the new files might be a unix executable that looks like this:.

directories/files it contained) should appear in the same directory the tar.gz file is in (to prevent clutter, consider placing the tar.gz file in a new, empty directory before double clicking on it)

Double click it the tar.gz file open it.

Search the internet for the application you're trying to install and the term homebrew, and it might bring up a page on homebrew and give you a simple install command which you can run in the mac terminal. NOTE: if you're trying to install a unix executable, it's sometimes easier to use homebrew.

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

Ln -sf /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.7/share/sip /opt/local/share/py27-sip

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

Sadly, you may need to do this step multiple times before eveything

port install qt4-mac qwt52 qwtplot3d boost gsl py27-pyqt4 py-pyqwt py27-sip muparser.

MacOSX than your build machine, see How to build a MacintoshĮxecutable that will run on older versions of If you want to be able to run your build on an earlier version of Using other build environments suchĪs HomeBrew is presumably equally as viable, but you may need to hack

Information in INSTALL.md Mac OS X - MacPorts instructions

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

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