![]() Instructions on how to do that vary depending on what shell you use. That's easy to arrange by modifying your PATH environment variable. You must be an administrator of your computer to do this, and you will be prompted for your password. To create this symlink, do this (substituting whatever version of Graphviz you're actually installing where I put 2.12): You may want to create a symlink at /usr/local/graphviz pointing at the most recent stable version of Graphviz you installed, so that you can run dot more simply as /usr/local/graphviz/bin/dot. How can I avoid having to use the version number in the path? If you encounter any problems with a Graphviz.app patched in this way, you should probably contact me, and not Glen at Pixelglow we shouldn't bother him about patched versions of his software that he's never seen before. You can freely move or rename your Graphviz.app, but note that it will not function if you later uninstall my Graphviz package, or if you copy this Graphviz.app to a machine on which my Graphviz package is not installed. ![]() This will permanently modify your copy of Graphviz.app to use my updated version of Graphviz. fix-graphviz-app "/Applications/Graphviz.app" Drag Pixelglow's Graphviz.app to /Applications, and then open the Terminal and run this (using graphviz-devel instead of graphviz-2.12 depending on which of my packages you installed): To do this, download and install one of my Graphviz packages, then download Graphviz from Pixelglow. However, you can patch it so that it makes use of a newer Graphviz from one of my packages. It uses its own built-in version of Graphviz, which is several years out-of-date. If you want a GUI for Graphviz, there is one that's provided by Pixelglow. (See above for where things do get installed.) My Graphviz packages do not include a GUI, so there's nothing to install in the Applications folder. Why isn't there a Graphviz.app in my Applications folder? Is there a Graphviz GUI? If you don't like having to type the path at all, you can update your PATH environment variable.ĭevelopment versions (odd-numbered versions) since 0307 get installed in /usr/local/graphviz-devel. If you don't like the version number in the path, you can make a symlink. For example, Graphviz 2.12 gets installed into /usr/local/graphviz-2.12, so you can run dot by running /usr/local/graphviz-2.12/bin/dot. ![]() Stable versions of Graphviz (even-numbered versions) get installed under /usr/local in a directory named for the version of Graphviz that's being installed. ![]() Why do I get an error about fontconfig?.How can I avoid having to use the version number in the path?.Why isn't there a Graphviz.app in my Applications folder?.Here are some questions I often get asked about my Graphviz builds. Graphviz Mac OS X Builds - FAQ Graphviz Mac OS X Builds - FAQ ![]()
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