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This page describes the installation of the ready-to-run Gramps application for Mac OS X. This is also known as the GTK-OSX port of GRAMPS Gramps for Mac. It is a single, stand-alone bundle which uses the native quartz windowing system of Mac OS X instead of X11.
== Before installation ==
'''Links with other programs:''' Double clicking an image in the media reference editor should bring up Apple Preview, or a similar program, to view the image. Clicking the view button in an internet reference should bring up the URL in the default browser. Clicking the Google Maps button in the Places display should bring up the map in the browser.
GRAMPS Gramps doesn't use the X11 Mac package. It's useful to install [http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ LibreOffice], [http://www.calligra-suite.org/ Calligra] (or [http://www.neooffice.org/ NeoOffice], a more mac-friendly version) to work on your reports after saving them from Gramps.
== What goes where ==
'''File structure:''' GRAMPS Gramps database and settings files can be found at the following places in the Mac file system (GRAMPS Gramps Version 3.2.5 and later):<br>* The GRAMPS Gramps database with the user's genealogical information is stored under /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/gramps/grampsdb.<br>
* Setting files (ini-files) are found here: /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/gramps/gramps32<br>
* Start-up settings for GRAMPS Gramps (for e. g. the environment variable LANG) can be accessed through Gramps.app (generally in /Applications): Right click on "Gramps.app", select "Show Package Content" from the menu, the start-up settings are found in the file Contents/MacOS/Gramps.
== Advanced setup ==
Usually, the default settings will be correct, but occasionally you may need to set things up differently.
'''Language:''' Normally, GRAMPS Gramps sets up languages and formats from system preferences (Language and Text on Snow Leopard and Lion; International on Leopard). There are three main settings:* On the first pane (Language(s)) is a list of languages. GRAMPS Gramps will go down the list and select the first one for which it has a translation to select the '''language in which all menus, labels, and messages''' are presented.
* On the right side of that pane at the bottom is an "Order for sorted lists" listbox which sets the way that '''lists are alphabetically sorted'''.
* Finally, in the third pane (second pane in Leopard) (Formats) one can select a country/Region which determines things like '''month and day names, whether a comma, dot, or space is used to separate thousands or decimal fractions, and so on'''.
If you want to run GRAMPS Gramps with different language or locale settings than you use for your system settings, you can use the "defaults" program from Terminal.app (Applications:Utilities:Terminal.app):
defaults write -app Gramps AppleLanguages "(de, en)"
defaults write -app Gramps AppleLocale "de_DE"
== Updates ==
GRAMPS Gramps stores all its internal data in ~/Library/Application Support. So, to upgrade a Gramps application bundle to a newer version, just throw the old application in the Trash. Make a backup copy of your data, just in case, then download the new version of the application and just use it. If you don't like the new version and want the old one back, throw the new version in the Trash and fetch the old one back from the Trash. The Gramps version is shown in Finder if you use column view; otherwise right click on it and select Get Info.
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