Installing QGIS on Mac OS X

This section will describe how to install QGIS on Mac OS X.

Unlike all of the other components of OpenGeo Suite which can be installed from a single installer package, QGIS is broken out into its own package and must be installed separately.

Warning

If you have the QGIS community version, uninstall it and remove /Libraries/Frameworks/GDAL.frameworks from your PATH variable. The QGIS community version for Mac OS X depends on GDAL frameworks which conflict with GeoWebCache for Application Servers.

Prerequisites

QGIS can run on any recent hardware/software combination.

Install

  1. Open the provided DMG archive. There will be a single QGIS.app and an alias to Applications.

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    QGIS.app

  2. Drag this icon into the Applications folder.

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    QGIS copied to Applications folder

QGIS is now installed, and can be run like any normal application.

Note

QGIS.app can be installed anywhere in the filesystem of your startup volume, not just in /Applications, and it will still work correctly. However, you may have issues with the embedded GRASS installation, within QGIS.app, if it is installed on other volumes.

Uninstall

To uninstall QGIS, delete the icon from the Applications folder, or from where it was installed.