Quick Installation Guide for macOS Sequoia, Sonoma and Ventura

Author:

Yasuhiro Inamura, Ryoichi Kajimoto

Last update:

April 24th, 2025

Utsusemi version:

4.0 or later

Supported macOS

The following macOS are supported

• 15.x (Sequoia), 14.x (Sonoma) and 13.x (Monterey) on Apple Silicon(M1)

• End of support : 12.x (Monterey) and 11.x (Big Sur) on Intel

Installation

Utsusemi Installer for macOS is distributed as a installer package (.pkg) file for macOS. Users have only to double click this file to install the whole set of Utsusemi applications with Python3 into Application folder.

Installation

1. Double click the installer package file.

2. In installation dialogs, you push “Continue”.

3. If you are asked where you want to install Utsusemi, you choose the storage for installation and push “Continue”.

4. Push “Install” to the default path ( /Application/Utsusemi )

5. Input the password of your account for authorization to install.

6. Installation starts.

1. After installation finishes, push “Close”.

Applications to be installed

You will find a set of Utsusemi software in “Utsusemi” folder in “Application” folder. You can also access them via LaunchPad. The following programs will be prepared.

List of Utsusemi Applications

Application	Description
D4MatSlicer	Launch D4MatSlicer
D4Mat2Slicer	Launch D4Mat2Slicer
M2PlotPlus	Launch M2PlotPlus
MPlot	Launch MPlot
SequenceEditor	Launch SequenceEditor
UtsusemiEnvironmentSetting	[Environment setting] Set the environment valuables for Utsusemi
UtsusemiShell	Launch “Terminal” with Utsusemi environment

The details will be described later.

Set up

Creation of necessary folders

The following two folders must be prepared. These folders store raw data and temporary files.

Path to folders required by Utsusemi

Folder (Environment valuable)	Description
Data folder (DATA_DIR)	Folder to store raw data (Same as “/data” in the Linux version.)
Analysis folder (USR_DIR)	Folder to include ana and tmp folders in which temporary files are stored (Same as “$HOME” in the Linux version)

These two folders are automatically made at the location below by the launching of Utsusemi Environment Setting app. Of cause, you can choose the other location, but recent macOS security prohibits to read/write data files in the “Desktop”, the “Documents” and some shared folders from Utsusemi. Home folder is OK for the present.

Example of path to folders required by Utsusemi

Folder	Location to be made
Data folder	<HomeFolder>/Utsusemi/DATA
Analysis folder	<HomeFolder>/Utsusemi/HOME

If you do not know how to open home folder, you select a “Home” item from “Go” menu.

Environment setting and requirements

The initial setting of Utsusemi must be done by using UtsusemiEnvironmentSettings application.

Warning

This setting must be done at least once after the installation.

Setting items are below.

• The instrument environment required for your data treatments

• Two folders to store raw data and analysis temporal information.

• Logging

• Font size for GUI applications.

• The number of processers for high performance on analysis

• Swiching debug-mode on/off

If you analyze raw data set obtained from other instrument, you must change the instrument environment in this setting. However, you treat 2nd data ( after histogram creations ), like saved data file (.dmp or .mdb file), you need not.

Launch Environment Setting

Laounch UtsusemiEnvironmentSettings in “Utsusemi” folder in “Application” folder, or from “LaunchPad”.

Setting Items

Environment variables for Utsusemi on macOS after venture

設定（環境変数）	役割
Instrument	Choose the instrument for data analysis. Raw data folder and executable commands are changed to suitable ones.
Log quiet	Turn on to decrease logs of analysis commands, normaly YES. All logs are written in /tmp/mlfsoft.log file. If something wrong happens on using Utsusemi, you should this.
Font Size	Set the font size for GUI applications. Normaly 12 points. You can change it to lager or smaller, but GUI layout or shapes maybe collapse by given value.
Debug mode	Turn on/off the debug mode in Utsusemi ( Default is off )
Number of threads	Some analysis command are affected by this value. Normaly you set the number of CPUs in your Mac machine.
DATA_DIR	Folder to store raw data (Same as “/data” in the Linux version)
USR_DIR	Place to locate “ana” and “tmp” folders for temporary files are stored (Same as “$HOME” in the Linux version)
WORK_DIR	Working folder for Utsusemi

DATA_DIR and USR_DIR are the folders to store raw data and analysis temporary files, respectively. You can choose them on EnvironSettings app by pushing Browse button.

Finishing Setting

After setting, push OK button. Then you see confirmation dialog as below.

If you meet an error dialog instead of this, check whether the given path to two folders are existed or not.

After closing this dialog, following folders are automatically created in the folder specified by USR_USR_DIR.

• ana folder

• tmp folder and xml folder under ana folder

Warning

If you cannot find these folders, you must make them by yourself to avoid the failure of Utsusemi launch.

On the other hand, you make folders to store raw data DATA_DIR according to a rule described in next section.

Rule for data location

Raw data should be stored in the folder specified by DATA_DIR according to the following rule.

1. Create a folder who has the same name as the instrument code.

   For example, “SIK” for 4SEASONS (BL01) and “AMR” for AMATERAS (BL14).

2. Place the data folder of corresponding instrument in this folder. The name of the data folder must include each Run No.

   For example, “SIK012345_20150301” for 4SEASONS.

   BL	Instrument code|Example of data folder
   BL01 4SEASONS	SIK	DATA/SIK/SIK012345_20160401
   BL11 PLANET	HPN	DATA/HPN/HPN012345_20160401
   BL14 AMATERAS	AMR	DATA/AMR/AMR012345_20160401
   BL15 TAIKAN	SAS	DATA/SAS/SAS012345_20160401
   BL19 TAKUMI	ENG	DATA/ENG/ENG012345_20160401

Data analysis

After completing the environment setting and preparing raw data, you can perform data analysis.

The following applications are available from Application/Utsusemi folder.

SequenceEditor

Launch SequenceEditor, same as one in Linux version.

UtsusemiEnvironmentSetting

[Environment setting] Set and confirm the environment valuables for Utsusemi. Refer to “Launch Environment Setting” section.

MPlot, M2PlotPlus

Launch Plotters ( including uGao package ) used from Utsusemi. Same as ones in Linux version.

MPlot	1-dimentional data plotter
M2PlotPlus	2-dimentional data plotter and slicer

D4MatSlicer , D4Mat2Slicer

Launch D4MatSlicer and D4Mat2Slicer, same as one in Linux version.

UtsusemiShell

Launch “Terminal” App under Utsusemi environment. In this terminal, you can execute commands defined on the selected instrument environment and any script made by yourself.

Notices launching at the first time

When you launch Utsusemi Shell at the first time, a warning dialog appears and Utsusemi Shell app does not launch though pushing “Open” or “OK” buttons. In this case, try launching again.

For details of each application, please refer to Utsusemi Users’ Manual.

Note

At current version (220520), SequenceEditor , D4mat , D4mat2 are launched through the Terminal application, which means that double clicks on these icons launch Terminal first and then SequenceEditor are launched in the Terminal app. If you close these Terminal, the GUI application concerned with closed Terminal is down too.

Launch from UtsusemiShell

If you are used to linux, you choose UtsusemiShell to launch GUI applications. This application launchs a terminal application with Utusemi environment, so you can execute all commands produced by Utsusemi and lanch GUI applications.

===========================================
  Welcome to Utsusemi Environment for SIK
===========================================
 Ana   : Sequencer
 M2Plot: M2PlotPlus
 D4mat : D4MatSlicer
 D4mat2: D4Mat2Slicer
===========================================
hoge@localhost %

For example, you type Ana here to launch SequenceEditor .

Running Utsusemi on a terminal

Python scripts including Utsusemi commands can be run without utilizing the above applications. In particular, if you try any new idea of data analysis, you need to utilize the Utsusemi environment on a terminal of macOS. The following is the procedure.

To execute your own scripts, there are two ways.

1. Launch UtsusemiShell

2. Launch a Terminal application and prepare Utsusemi environment.

By UtsusemiShell , as described above, a simple Terminal app is launched with Utsusemi environment.

If you want to use the specified terminal, preparations are below.

1. Launch your specified terminal.

2. Run the following command.

   $ source /Applications/Utsusemi/.opt/bin/_loadenv
   

3. Then, any functions of Manyo-Library or Utsusemi can be called.

   $ python
   Python 3.9.12 (main, May 16 2022, 19:19:31)
   [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)] on darwin
   Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
   >>> import Manyo
   Manyo>>>
   

Version number confirmation

Utusemi version can be seen in the following ways. It is useful when you report bugs or update Utsusemi.

1. Installer file name

   Installer file name consists of two sets of numbers.

   Example	MLFSOFT.X.Y.Z.nnnnnn
   X.Y.Z	Release number
   nnnnnn	Latest date for update

2. Command of Utsusemi Shell

   Launch Utsusemi Shell, and run the following command.

   >>> import utsusemi
   >>> utsusemi.__version__
   '4.0.0'
   

   Or,

   import UtsusemiInfo
   

   Then, the following information is displayed.

   ---------------------------------------------
                  Utsusemi Info
   ---------------------------------------------
            version :  X.Y.Z (rev nnnnnn)
     Contact person : Yasuhiro Inamura
             e-mail : xxxxx.yyyyy@j-parc.jp
   ---------------------------------------------
   

   X.Y.Z, and nnnn are release number and the latest date for update, respectively.

Uninstall

Just move Utsusemi folder in Application folder to trash box.

However, this does not completely all the relevant files, and some folders show below are remained. Delete them manually is you want.

DATA_DIR folder

USR_DIR folder

In addition, several configuration files are remained. Although these files will be used when you re-install Utsusemi, you may delete them.

Home folder/Library/Utsusemi folder

Note that these are invisible folders.

Troubles

If you feel something wrong on Utsusemi works, for example no progress of commands steps, please send a report about your situations and a log file “/tmp/mlfsoft.log” .

What must be reported

To report your trouble, you tell us the information as below :

• Which software or command you are using

• What you are going to

• What you did

• What happened

About log file

Data treatment logs produced by some GUI applications launched through terminal ( SequenceEditor, D4mat, D4mat2 ) are shown on the terminal concerned with GUI app. If you need log text of executing the commands or application, you must copy texts on the terminal.

The other logs under Utsusemi working are recorded in a file /tmp/mlfsoft.log . So you copy this file to send with report. In order to copy this file, do this command from command line in “Terminal” App to copy a log file to Desktop.

$ cp /tmp/mlfsoft.log ~/Desktop