mountainlab/docs/docs_editable/notes_on_osx.md

MountainLab data analysis environment

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Here are some notes/hints for getting MountainLab to work on OS X. (Thanks to L. Frank for testing)

You should first install homebrew, if not already on your system. 

Following install of nodeJS, do the following:

```
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/bin/nodejs
```

This will create a link between node (as it seems to be called on OS X systems) and nodejs, which is what mountainlab expects.


When installing the plugin processor libraries, you will need to replace the 'pip3' command with 'pip',

It is possible that you will be missing the olefile package. In that case, do:

```
pip install olefile
```

If you run into problems, contact Jeremy.