Installing the binaries

1. Download this zip file.
2. Drag and drop the downloaded and unzipped folder to the location of your choice, and rename it "Open Ephys."
3. Double-click the "open-ephys" executable to run the application.

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HDF5 versions 1.10 and higher are not compatible with our code. If your MacPorts repositories are up to date, chances are that the hdf5 package includes a newer version. Fortunately there is a package called hdf5-18 which provides with the adequate libraries. Unless needed for other projects, we recommend not installing the hdf5 package.

Newer versions of macports might mark hdf5-18 as deprecated. If that is the case, you need to manually download the macports package repository, set it to the latest version with the package and then install it. To do that, run the following commands:

git clone --single-branch https://github.com/macports/macports-ports.git
cd macports-ports
git checkout 461781b947cdc9f942d2e963e8d25e58cc7b93ca

cd science/hdf5-18
sudo port install

Notes on different hardware and software

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