[Introduction] [System Requirements] [Disclaimer and Copyright] [Installation]

As of version 2.2, OOF2 uses the Gtk3 graphics toolkit. At this time (2 February 2023) Gtk3 does not work correctly on MacOS 13 (Ventura). In particular, it does not allow mouse clicks on drop-down menus. See here for more information.

One poor but workable solution to the problem is to use the keyboard arrow keys to navigate the menus in OOF2 2.2.x. Click on the menubar to bring up a menu, and then use the up and down arrows to move between menu items. Use the right arrow to enter a submenu, and the left arrow to exit it. The return key will select the current menu item.

Another solution is to install a slightly modified version of OOF2 2.1.19, available below. This version includes the Eigen updates from OOF2 2.2, but does not use Gtk3.

The modified 2.1.19 will work on other systems, but it's not required there. If you can, use OOF2 2.2 instead. It has many advantages over 2.1.19.

You need

• A C++ compiler.
• Python, version 2.7.
• The Image Magick++ image processing library, version 6.x. OOF2 does not work with ImageMagick 7.
• The gtk+2 graphics toolkit. OOF2 requires version 2.6 or later, but not as late as version 3.0.
• The Gnome canvas library, libgnomecanvas2, version 2.6 or later. (Earlier versions may work too.)
• The pygtk Python bindings for the gtk+ library. OOF2 requires version 2.6 or later.
• The BLAS basic linear algebra subroutines and the lapack linear algebra library.
• Optional: An X11 server. OOF2 can use either X11 or the native Cocoa/Quartz graphics.

If you're using MacPorts, you can install the prerequisites as follows:

1. Install MacPorts, from http://www.macports.org/install.php, folowing their instructions.

2. If you want to use Cocoa/Quartz instead of X11, edit the file /opt/local/etc/macports/variants.conf and add the line

     -x11 +quartz
   

   at the bottom.

3. Run these commands:

     sudo port install pkgconfig
     sudo port install openblas +native
     sudo port install py27-numpy +openblas
     sudo port install py27-pygtk
     sudo port install libgnomecanvas
     sudo port install ImageMagick
   

   If you're using X11, also run

     sudo port install xorg-server
   

4. If you want python2.7 to be the default version of python, run

     sudo port select python python27
   

   If you don't do this, then be sure to type python2.7 instead of python when installing OOF2, below.

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1. Install the OOF2 prerequisites.

2. Download OOF2 2.1.19_1 from oof2-2.1.19_1.tar.gz (14910223 bytes, compressed; md5 checksum eace066946b3bc4c8fb05be4cdefd928).

   This will create a file called oof2-2.1.19_1.tar.gz in your download directory.

3. Unpack the downloaded tar file, if your browser didn't do it already: cd to the directory where it lives and type

     tar -xf oof2.1.19_1.tar.gz
   

   This will create a directory called oof2-2.1.19_1.
4. Read the README file.
5. cd to oof2-2.1.19_1 and run

     python setup.py build
   

   followed by

     sudo python setup.py install
   

   to install in a system directory, or

     python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME
   

   to install in your home directory. It's important to ensure that you use Python 2.7 to build and install OOF2.