Installing Cytoscape 3.2 on Mac OSX Snow Leopard (10.6.8)

Cytoscape 3.2 requires Java 7 to run. Unfortunately Java 7 is not officially available for Snow Leopard (10.6.8). We found a version of Java 7 (Update 25) that works with Mac OS X 10.6.8. Note, later versions of Java 7 do not work on OS X 10.6.8 even if you manage to install them.

Install Java 7

• Download the modified Java 7 (Update 25) package from here - this version will allow you install Java 7 even though it is technically not supported.
• Install Java 7.

• Set your Java Home as described here : 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 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 minimally OS X version 10.7.3)

• Double click on file to unzip and extract contents.

• 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''