Installation on a Macintosh Computer (Sierra)

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Installation on an M1+ Marmot IT supported Mac

·      Click the Self Service icon in your dock or in your Applications folder

·      Click on the button labeled ‘Sierra’

·      Click Install

·      When it says done, you’re all set

·      You should now also see a Sierra Desktop App icon in the dock

Installation on an M1+ Macintosh Computer

This must be done in the User’s profile

·      Press + spacebar to bring up Spotlight and type terminal, hit enter

·      In the terminal type softwareupdate --install-rosetta

·      Press A to accept the SLA

·      Leave terminal up, we will come back to this

·      In a browser, go to https://sierra.marmot.org:63100/web/installers/

·      Scroll to MacOSX Apple silicon (SFX) and click Download

·      If asked, click allow to allow downloads from http://sierra.marmot.org

·      Back in the terminal window, type cd ~/Downloads/ and hit enter

·      Type sh sfx_sierra_macosx_apple_silicon.sh and hit enter

·      This will open the Sierra installer

·      At the Introduction window, hit Next

·      At the Choose Install Folder window, hit Next

·      At the Choose Alias Folder windows, choose where you want a shortcut (In this example, we are using Desktop), then click Next

·      At the Pre-installation window, click Install

·      At this point, Sierra will install

·      At the final window, Install Complete, click Done

·      Close the terminal window

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Installation on an Intel Macintosh Computer

This must be done in the User’s profile

·      In a browser, go to https://sierra.marmot.org:63100/web/installers/

·      Scroll to MacOSX Intel (SFX) and click Download

·      If asked, click allow to allow downloads from http://sierra.marmot.org

·      Press + space to bring up Spotlight and type terminal, hit enter

·      In the terminal window, type cd ~/Downloads/ and hit enter

·      Type sh sfx_sierra_macosx_intel.sh and hit enter

·      This will open the Sierra installer

·      At the Introduction window, hit Next

·      At the Choose Install Folder window, hit Next

·      At the Choose Alias Folder windows, choose where you want a shortcut (In this example, we are using Desktop), then click Next

·      At the Pre-installation window, click Install

·      At this point, Sierra will install

·      At the final window, Install Complete, click Done

·      Close the terminal window

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