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VAPOR Mac Binary Installation

This document describes the VAPOR installation process for pre-compiled binaries on Mac OS X systems. If you have not already done so, download an appropriate VAPOR image from the download site. Unless otherwise noted in the release notes below, pre-compiled binaries are built with compiler optimization enabled, and IDL support turned on. Sites requiring a different configuration will need to build VAPOR from source code.

On the Mac OS X platform VAPOR is installed via a Mac installation package, delivered as a disk image. Installation is trivial:

  1. Download the disk image file vapor-x.x.x-Darwin_x86_64.dmg, where 'x.x.x' is the version number.
  2. Double click disk image file.
  3. The Mac OS X Finder will open a window displaying the VAPOR installation package file. Double click on the installation package file and follow the Mac OS X Installer directions.

User Environment Setup

The VAPOR installer provided for the Mac will install the VAPOR application bundle under /Applications/VAPOR/VAPOR.app. The important instructions below assume the default installation location is chosen.

C-shell derivative users (csh, tcsh)

If you are a C-shell (csh, tcsh) user you must execute the following command prior to running any VAPOR command line utilities:

            source /Applications/VAPOR/VAPOR.app/Contents/MacOS/vapor-setup.csh

Bourne shell derivative users (ksh, bash, sh)

If you are a Bourne shell (sh, bash, ksh) user you must execute the following command prior to running any VAPOR command line utilties:

             . /Applications/VAPOR/VAPOR.app/Contents/MacOS/vapor-setup.sh

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