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A fully packaged binary application for Gramps on Mac is available (for both Intel only, yet) and PPC and its use is described at [[Using Gramps on Apple MacOS X:Application package]].

There are at least three This page describes a number of different ways of building and installing GRAMPS from source on Mac OS X. The linked pages provide step by step instructions.

The fully packaged binary application uses [http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2b/OSX GTK-OSX version ] and is the newest port, and least unlike a Mac native application. It installs as an app bundle which you can double-click in Finder to launch. The build process is almost fully automated, just follow the one described at [[Using Gramps on Apple MacOS X:Build from source:Application package|step-by-step instructions]]. The build requires the Your mac came with everything you need except [http://developer.apple.com/TOOLS/Xcode/ Apple Xcode] toolset, which is free. A single zip file provides from the build environment, App Store for Lion users and one double-click in Finder does the build, ending up with a runnable packaged gramps application on the Desktop. Admin permission is not required. Sudo is not required. X11 is not required. The build takes about an hour on a modern iMacyour distribution DVD for earlier versions of OS X.