= Installing Cyotscape 3.2 on Mac OSX SnowLeopard (10.6.8) =
Cytoscape 3.2 requires Java 7 to run.  Unfortunately Java 7 is not available for Snow Leopard.  We found a version (Update 25) of Java 7 that works on Mac OS X 10.6.8.  

== Install Java 7 ==
 * Download the Java 7 (Update 25) package from here.
 * Install
 * Set your Java Home as described here : [[http://www.cytoscape.org/release_notes_3_1_1.html|Set JAVA_HOME]]
 * verify that you are now using Java 7.  Open a terminal window (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal , Run the command "java -version")
{{{
MacPro:~$java -version

java version "1.7.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)
}}}

== Download Cytoscape 3.2 ==
 * Download Cytoscape 3.2 from [[http://chianti.ucsd.edu/cytoscape-3.2.0-rc2/|here]] '''Currently this link is set to RC2 link.  Once 3.2 is released need to update link'''
 * Download file cytoscape-3.2.0.tar.gz (Can't download the DMG for Mac because it too has a restriction on it requiring minimal 10.7.3)
 * Double clilck on file.
 * Copy ''cytoscape-unix-3.2.0'' and paste into ''Applications'' directory.

== Launching Cytoscape 3.2 ==
  * Launch Cytoscape from command line
  {{{
    *  Open a terminal window (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
    *  Run ''/Applications/cytoscape-unix-3.2.0/cytoscape.sh''
   }}}