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Installation on a Macintosh Computer (Sierra)

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

·      Click on the button labeled ‘Sierra’ Click on the button labeled Sierra

·      Click Install Click on install

·      When it says done, you’re all set All done

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

Installation on an M1+ Macintosh Computer

This must be done in the User’s profile

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

·      In the terminal type softwareupdate --install-rosetta Terminal with softwareupdate command

·      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 This shows which installer to download

·      If asked, click allow to allow downloads from http://sierra.marmot.org A popup displaying Click Allow

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

·      Type sh sfx_sierra_macosx_apple_silicon.sh and hit enter

·      This will open the Sierra installer

·      At the Introduction window, hit Next Introduction

·      At the Choose Install Folder window, hit Next Choose Install

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

·      At the Pre-installation window, click Install Pre-Installation

·      At this point, Sierra will install

·      At the final window, Install Complete, click Done Installation complete

·      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 Download MacOSX Intel (SFX)

·      If asked, click allow to allow downloads from http://sierra.marmot.org A popup displaying Click Allow

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

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

·      Type sh sfx_sierra_macosx_intel.sh and hit enter

·      This will open the Sierra installer

·      At the Introduction window, hit Next Introduction

·      At the Choose Install Folder window, hit Next Choose Install

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

·      At the Pre-installation window, click Install Pre-Installation

·      At this point, Sierra will install

·      At the final window, Install Complete, click Done Installation complete

·      Close the terminal window

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