Manual Installation on Mac OS X

  • Open a Terminal (Finder->Applications->Utilities)
  • Install all dependencies required by PyGTK2 (This will take a very long time) 
    sudo port install py-gtk2

You have now two options: Download and extract a release tarball, or checkout the latest development code from the Subversion repository.

Subversion

  • First, install subversion with DarwinPorts 
    sudo port install subversion

Then, download the latest source code from the repository. 

svn checkout http://nicotine-plus.org/svn/trunk/nicotine+ nicotine+
cd nicotine+/
./nicotine

With the last command, Nicotine+ should start up

Release Tarball

First download a nicotine+-X.X.X.tar.bz2 (or .gz) file to your Home directory (or any specific directory you know the path to). For example, if you copied the Bzip (.bz2) archive to your home directory (~/), in a terminal: 

cd ~/
tar jxvf nicotine+-X.X.X.tar.bz2
cd nicotine+-X.X.X/
./nicotine

For the Gzip (.gz), do: 

tar zxvf nicotine+-X.X.X.tar.gz