How to install Darwine on your Mac

Admin Joined : 29 Jun 2008 Posts : 6

Pre-requisites

-Darwine is only compatible with Macs that come with the intel processor.
-If you have Tiger installed on your Mac, you need to install the X11 tool as described here
If you have Leopard then X11 will be already installed by default
-You need to install the latest version of XQuartz from here

Installing Darwine

There are no offcial releases of Darwine yet but you can download unofficial releases from many sites like this one

Installing Vector NTI

Once you have installed Darwine you are ready to download and install the Windows version of Vector NTI on your Mac !
Optional: if you want to take advantage of the web functions of Vector NTI you need to install the Windows version of Firefox

Running Vector NTI
Go to Applications > Darwine > Sample Wine Applications > winefile.exe
Then run Vector NTI from C:\Program file\Invitrogen\Vector NTI Advance 10\Vector NTI 10.exe

Guest

Hello,

Can I install Vector NTI on my Mac of I have Panther 10.3 ?
thanks

Admin Joined : 29 Jun 2008 Posts : 6

Mario,

Unfortunately you can only install Darwine on OSX Tiger or Leopard ( >10.4). And it has to be an intel Mac (not PowerPc).
If you have Panther you can run the current Mac version of Vector NTI from the Invitrogen website.
Hans

Guest

Do you mean that after installing Darwin you can install and run Vector NTI directly on your Mac without installing Microsoft Windows at all??

Guest

How did you achieve to install Vector NTI? I always get some errors while installing. Is there a special way?

Cheers,
Michael