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COMSOL 4.4 is not compatible with MAC OS X Yosemite 10.10

Posted 19.06.2014, 04:34 GMT-4 Installation & License Management Version 4.4 25 Replies

Yong LI

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COMSOL 4.4 can not run on the MAC OSX 10.10 . Can someone solve the problem. or the only thing we can do is waiting the update3 or new version or new version of Yosemite?

Thanks.

25 Replies Last Post 10.11.2014, 02:02 GMT-5

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Hi Yong,
COMSOL will support this operating system when it is officially released.

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Brandon Lavery

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Yosemite is out today and it is still not compatible with comsol. Please fix this.

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

We now have instructions and a patch for installing and running COMSOL 4.4 Update 2 on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. You can find the instructions at www.comsol.com/support/updates/comsol44p3

Note that COMSOL 5.0 works out of the box on Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Yong LI

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Which day the COMSOL 5.0 will be released?

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Which day the COMSOL 5.0 will be released?

I don't have an exact date but it will be very soon.

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Nathan Douet

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Hello,

I need to instal the update 2 because I just installed the update yosemite. But I am using the floating license of my university (EPFL).
To download the COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz I need to give you my license, but I don’t have any, because I only have to be connected on the wifi of my university or in vpn to be able to use comsol.
I’m working on my master thesis, and it is very urgent. Can you give me an access to this file please.

Best regards,

Nathan Douet
EPFL

Nathan Douet

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Ok, I manage to solve the problem.
I also have a .dat file, sorry for the previous message.

Nathan Douet

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Posted: 1 decade ago

I managed to download the update but I can manage to run the command...

When I have uncompressed the file should I replace manually the bin, doc, java and plugins files?

Reagards,

Nathan

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

I managed to download the update but I can manage to run the command...

When I have uncompressed the file should I replace manually the bin, doc, java and plugins files?

Reagards,

Nathan

What error do you get?

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Nathan Douet

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Posted: 1 decade ago

I get no error if suppress the .gz of the command tar xvzf COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz.

But my Comsol is still not able to launch.

It is not clear in the instruction on the webpage.

"1.After the installation is complete, download the COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz file and place it in the COMSOL 4.4 Update 2 installation root directory."

In the file "COMSOL44" I have to create a file named "Update 2"? And uncompress the file COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz. in it?
Or I simply put everything in the folder updates?
I tried both and it does not work.

May you can tell me what am I doing wrong.

Best regards,

Nathan

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

You just download the file and place it in the folder where you have installed COMSOL. If COMSOL is installed in /Applications/COMSOL44, you place the file there and then run the command. Sometimes Safari unpacks compressed files automatically upon download - if this happened to you too, you just skip the .gz part of the command and run 'tar -xvzf COMSOL44_osx1010.tar' without the quotes.

Nathan Douet

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Much clearer !
Thank you very much, it works !

Best regards,

Nathan

Brandon Lavery

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Posted: 1 decade ago

You just download the file and place it in the folder where you have installed COMSOL. If COMSOL is installed in /Applications/COMSOL44, you place the file there and then run the command. Sometimes Safari unpacks compressed files automatically upon download - if this happened to you too, you just skip the .gz part of the command and run 'tar -xvzf COMSOL44_osx1010.tar' without the quotes.

So I have downloaded the folder but I do not understand the terminal part of this. I tried to put the .tar folder in my comsol4.4 application folder by dragging and dropping and then unpack it, but after unpacking it Comsol still did open.

Brandon Lavery

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Posted: 1 decade ago

I managed to download the update but I can manage to run the command...

When I have uncompressed the file should I replace manually the bin, doc, java and plugins files?

Reagards,

Nathan

What error do you get?

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Nathan,
Did you replace the bin,doc, java, and plugin files in the comsol 44 applications folder?

Thanks,
Brandon

Brandon Lavery

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Posted: 1 decade ago

How do I navigate to the applications folder where my program is installed in terminal?

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

How do I navigate to the applications folder where my program is installed in terminal?

If COMSOL is installed in /Applications/COMSOL44, you type this command in the terminal in order to get there:

cd /Applications/COMSOL44

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

Brandon Lavery

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Thank you! This fixed everything. Now the code works.

-Brandon

Jonathan Garber

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Great. But I'm still running COMSOL 4.3b (which provides all the functionality we currently need), and we can't really afford the $$$ or time to upgrade. Does/will this tool help the rest of us still running other versions of COMSOL 4?

Instructions?

Do I have to drop back my version of the OS to keep COMSOL running on my Macs?

Rouzbeh Abadi

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Hello All
i also have problem to download COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz , i use a server to run comsol on Bauhaus university, i dont have any license file or serial number, so how can i download that file to run it on mac os x yosemite?

Anders Ekerot

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Hello All
i also have problem to download COMSOL44_osx1010.tar.gz , i use a server to run comsol on Bauhaus university, i dont have any license file or serial number, so how can i download that file to run it on mac os x yosemite?

Dear Rouzbeh,

COMSOL Support can help you to obtain your license number. Please resend your request to support@comsol.com or contact us via the support form at www.comsol.com/access/

Best regards,
Anders

Nicholas Cilfone

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Hi,

I'm running OSX 10.10 and I've applied COMSOL 4.4 Update 2 using the terminal commands. However, I am now receiving the following message when trying to start COMSOL:

The Comsollauncher executable launcher was unable to locate its companion launcher jar.

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Edit: Nvm. Re-installing fixed the issue!

Viktor_P

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Posted: 1 decade ago

I had the same Problem.
Install Java 8 Update 25:
download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u25-b17/jre-8u25-macosx-x64.dmg

Viktor_P

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Ups, think I was wrong.
After having installed Java 8U25 on another Mac I replaced folders bin, doc and plugins and got the same error message.
Then I put back the originals and again moved the new ones to the directory but this time by "uniting?" the folders (sorry, german os).
Now Comsol worked.

Zhang Yin

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Could you tell me how to fix "The Comsollauncher executable launcher was unable to locate its companion launcher jar." ?

Atanas Kumbarov COMSOL Employee

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Posted: 1 decade ago

Could you tell me how to fix "The Comsollauncher executable launcher was unable to locate its companion launcher jar." ?

Please contact COMSOL Support for further questions regarding the COMSOL patch for Yosemite: www.comsol.com/support

Best regards,
Atanas Kumbarov

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