Dear Bioimage Suite developers.
I receive an error when trying to launch bioimagesuite since I changed computer:

BioimageSuite3_Base is now in your path
Key Components
/Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/cmake26/bin/cmake
/Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/tcl84_x11/bin/tclsh
/Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/vtk52/bin/vtk
/Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/gdcm2/bin/gdcminfo
CLAPACK in /Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/clapack3
ITK in /Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/itk310/lib/InsightToolkit
MYSQL in /Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/mysql50
BioimageSuite ready to run. Type bis.tcl to get the starting menu (/Applications/bioimagesuite30)
dyld: Library not loaded: libvtkVolumeRenderingTCL.5.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/bioimagesuite3_base/vtk52/bin/vtk
Reason: image not found
start_bioimagesuite: line 20: 5343 Abort trap: 6 bis.tcl



I believe it is the same error than in a different thread for OS 10.12.
I tried several versions available on the website without success.
Thanks for your help.
Tom

The old version (from the website) will not work on newer Macs unfortunately. You may want to try the "internal" version from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i5ed09aa1qvtg...

it worked perfectly nice. Many thanks for the super fast answer.

Hi,
sorry to bug with the same problem. I had it before on a previous version of OSX and installing BIS from the dropbox link you provided fixed it. Somehow it did not this time. BIS gives me this error when trying to start it on OSX 10.12.2:

BioimageSuite3_Base is now in your path
Key Components
/usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/cmake26/bin/cmake
/usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/tcl84_x11/bin/tclsh
/usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/vtk52/bin/vtk
/usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/gdcm2/bin/gdcminfo
CLAPACK in /usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/clapack3
ITK in /usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/itk310/lib/InsightToolkit
MYSQL in /usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/mysql50
BioimageSuite ready to run. Type bis.tcl to get the starting menu (/usr/local/bioimagesuite30)
dyld: Library not loaded: libvtkVolumeRenderingTCL.5.2.dylib
Referenced from: /usr/local/bioimagesuite3_base/vtk52/bin/vtk
Reason: image not found
/usr/local/bis: line 20: 776 Abort trap: 6 bis.tcl

Any thoughts? 

Thank you, 

Stephan

You need to install the 3.5 beta version on latest versions on MacOS. The link is here

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i5ed09aa1qvtg...

It is beta so use with care.

Thank you for your fast response! It works. Stephan

Hi~Xenophon

I am new to BIS. 

I'm also facing the similar problem. I use Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 and down the file mac_bioimagesuite35_base64.zip from your dropbox link. 

However, I still can't instal the BIS. Even tried other files and typed sudo sh ./bioimagesuite_[filename].sh --prefix=/usr/local.

The terminator always shows No such file or directory. 

Shall I need to put the whole files into /usr/local/? 


Thank you very much.

Chun-yu,

You downloaded the wrong file - look for the one ending in sh

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4driziuviyou9s...

Xenios

Thank you! 

I download the file and type 

sudo sh ./bioimagesuite_[bioimagesuite-35_0b1_06_Apr_2017-MacOS-c++-x86_64].sh --prefix=/usr/local

but it still showed sh: ./bioimagesuite_[bioimagesuite-35_0b1_06_Apr_2017-MacOS-c++-x86_64].sh: No such file or directory

It seems it's not work. Is there anything wrong?

Rename the file to something like bis.sh and try sudo sh ./bis.sh -prefix=/usr/local

The [] in the name are giving you trouble.

Thank you. The installation is done. 
But how do I launch the BIS?
When I open the start_bioimagesuite, it shows

Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
Error in startup script: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
while executing
"load /Users/chengrick/Desktop/bioimagesuite35/lib/libtk8.5.dylib Tk"
("package ifneeded Tk 8.5.16" script)
invoked from within
"package require Tk 8.0"
(file "/Users/chengrick/Desktop/bioimagesuite35/lib/iwidgets4.0.1/iwidgets.tcl" line 17)
invoked from within
"source /Users/chengrick/Desktop/bioimagesuite35/lib/iwidgets4.0.1/iwidgets.tcl"
("package ifneeded Iwidgets 4.0.1" script)
invoked from within
"package require Iwidgets "
(file "/Users/chengrick/Desktop/bioimagesuite35/main/bis.tcl" line 45)

Is there anything I miss?

You need to install XQuartz and launch it first.

Xenios

It works!!

Deeply appreciate your help and patience.

Chun

Hello, 

Just wanted to thank you for this version, I have a newer Mac and could not run the 3.0 version of BIS. 

When you say to be careful when using this version, what you we pay particular attention to?

It is a beta version as it has not been as tested as we would like - this is the usual disclaimer.