I is now really easy to run DIVA-GIS on a Mac (OSX) with an Intel chip. This is because Mike Kronenberg has added DIVA to the the "predefined prefixes" in winebottler. Many thanks Mike! Also thanks to Jonathan Fresnedo for instigating this, and for showing me the result.
First download, install, and open winebottler. Then click on DIVA-GIS (under the predefined prefixes menu). That's it!
If you do not want to use the predefined prefix (or if you wanted to install a different version of then the one available in winebottler), this is how Mike set it up:
1. open WineBottler
2. select the "Create custom prefix" from the sourcelist
3. in the "Installer" section, find setup.exe
4. in the "winetricks" section, select "mdac25" and "vcrun6", this will install the missing libraries
5. select "silent Install", this will bring up less dialogs
6. finally, Install.
7. give it a good name.
8. do not run is directly after installation
9. after the installation, you'll be asked to select the correct exe
10. now, when the installer progrssbar is away, you can start it.
Jonathan also showed me another way to run DIVA on a mac. He had it installed under Parellels, a windows emulator for mac. Works great too, but it costs money as you need a license for parallels and for windows.
Comments
Wineblotter?
Is WineBlotter no longer available for download? The download link for the dmg will not work. I need to be able to run DIVA-GIS on a Mac!
Thanks,
cathy
Winetricks
Hi, my create custom prefix box does not allow me to select any missing files. Don't see them anywhere. Please help... what am I doing wrong?
Diva GIS on Mac OS X
I've tried to install Diva GIS on Mac OS X "Snow Leopard" using WineBottler and the Predefined Prefixes. However, after installing the True Type Fonts, the error below occurs. What steps are needed to correct this problem?
Thanks.
###BOTTLING### installing mdac25
### LOG ### Command 'sh /private/tmp/winebottler/1317242289/winetricks.sh mdac25' returned status 1.
Unknown arg mdac25 Usage: /private/tmp/winebottler/1317242289/winetricks.sh [options] [command|verb|path-to-verb] ... Executes given verbs. Each verb installs an application or changes a setting. Options: --force Don't check whether packages were already installed --gui Show gui diagnostics even when driven by commandline -k, --keep_isos Cache isos (allows later installation without disc) --no-clean Don't delete temp directories (useful during debugging) --no-isolate Don't install each app or game in its own bottle -q, --unattended Don't ask any questions, just install automatically -r, --ddrescue Retry hard when caching scratched discs --showbroken Even show verbs that are currently broken in wine -v, --verbose Echo all commands as they are executed -h, --help Display this message and exit -V, --version Display version and exit Commands: list list categories apps list list verbs in category 'applications' benchmarks list list verbs in category 'benchmarks' dlls list list verbs in category 'dlls' games list list verbs in category 'games' settings list list verbs in category 'settings' list-cached list cached-and-ready-to-install verbs list-download list verbs which download automatically list-manual-download list verbs which download with some help from the user list-installed list already-installed verbs prefix=foobar select WINEPREFIX=/Users/kbomb/.local/share/wineprefixes/foobar
###ERROR### Command 'sh /private/tmp/winebottler/1317242289/winetricks.sh mdac25' returned status 1.
Task returned with status 15.
How to convert the CLM files into shp. files?
I' m a new DIVA-GIS user.when doing "Exercise 1",I can't import the "world _cl_10m" file which downloaded from office website.Its format is CLM. how can I deal with it?How can I import the CLM format files.
It's very important.Please help me.
Infection on DIVA-GIS for MAC ?
Hello I have been working with Diva GIS lately and I love it. At home I have a Mac so I decided to download the Mac version on the Winebottler and Install it.
Today I run my antivirus (ClamXav) and It detects a Infection on de DIVA-GIS app
"/Applications/DIVA-GIS.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/system32/drivers/mountmgr.sys:"
Does anybody know something about this?
I'll keep an eye on it !!!
Bye !
Hello Renzo I wonder if you
Hello Renzo
I wonder if you still has problems with the infection in your Mac,
Thank you,
César
winetrick mdac 28
I had trouble installing the predefined wine prefix of diva. I had to enable the winetrick mdac 28 instead of mdac 25 to successfully install. Don't know if anyone else had this problem
VirtualBox
There's another brilliant app similar to Parallels and VMWare but it's free and even has a slightly trimmed down open source version. It's developed by Sun (the geniuses behind Solaris, OpenOffice and Java plus a whole suite of other excellent open source tools), and has a friendly user interface for setting up virtual machines. You however will still need a licence for windows. Oh and virtualbox runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
Go to http://www.virtualbox.org/ and find the links from there.
I'd be most interested in a native linux version of diva-gis ;)