(Please email us (info ) with questions or comments about downloading Mesquite). More details of issues of using Mesquite under Mac OS X are described in the Support page.

For more complete instructions about starting Mesquite and what can go wrong, see the file Mesquite_Starter_INSTRUCTIONS-macOS.txt. OpenLogic provides free OpenJDK Java downloads for OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11.

The different versions of Starters also provide different amounts of memory.

Which Mesquite_Starter should you use? We offer several different versions because the diversity of macOS versions and Java versions make it too challenging to provide you a single solution.

If you don't have Java installed, you may be asked to install it.

Double click one of the Mesquite_Starter icons to start Mesquite.

Mesquite_Starter_INSTRUCTIONS-macOS.txt.

Its contents should be approximately as follows: Drag this Mesquite_Folder to your hard drive (e.g., your Applications folder).

If the downloaded file doesn't mount into a disk image automatically, double click it to mount.

Oracle’s commercially-licensed JDK 19 binaries, based on the same code, are here.

Download the latest version of Mesquite from the Mesquite Github repository. Download and install the latest open-source JDK.

First, however, you may want to take from Mesquite_Folder/mesquite any third party packages (e.g., PDAP, TreeSetViz) before deleting the directory.

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.

(Java 1.8 is also called Java 8.) Mesquite may or may not run on older systems. java version 1.8.045 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (. System requirements: Mac OS X 10.10 or higher, with Java 1.8 or higher required. If you see an output like below then Java is already installed on your machine so skip the next step.

Jdk 1.8 mac download