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DIVA on a Mac

Wed, 10/28/2009 - 00:15 — Robert

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

Thu, 09/30/2010 - 13:55 — Student (not verified)

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.

Fri, 09/24/2010 - 13:23 — Renzoandre De la Peña Lavander (not verified)

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 !

Mon, 04/25/2011 - 09:05 — César (not verified)

Hello Renzo I wonder if you

Hello Renzo

I wonder if you still has problems with the infection in your Mac,

Thank you,

César

Sat, 04/17/2010 - 12:10 — Alex (not verified)

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

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 22:19 — Kehan (not verified)

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 ;)