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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1165337"><p>To be fair, Oneironaut, not all Mac software has an installer. Very often they expect the user to click-and-drag the application icon from the mounted disk image to the /Applications folder on their own (occasionally, as with Skype and Firefox, some hieroglyphics are seen to instruct users on this).</p><p></p><p>MOST of the time when I've encountered an application that shows up standalone on the mounted disk image, an alias of the Application folder is included so that I don't have to drag the app very far.</p><p></p><p>But in short, Cindermegz, if an "installer" doesn't start up, chances are you are supposed to drag the application icon from the mounted disk image into Applications. Once that's done (you'll see a very brief "copying" dialog), you can then trash the mounted disk image and the dmg file, and launch the application from /Applications as you are supposed to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1165337"] To be fair, Oneironaut, not all Mac software has an installer. Very often they expect the user to click-and-drag the application icon from the mounted disk image to the /Applications folder on their own (occasionally, as with Skype and Firefox, some hieroglyphics are seen to instruct users on this). MOST of the time when I've encountered an application that shows up standalone on the mounted disk image, an alias of the Application folder is included so that I don't have to drag the app very far. But in short, Cindermegz, if an "installer" doesn't start up, chances are you are supposed to drag the application icon from the mounted disk image into Applications. Once that's done (you'll see a very brief "copying" dialog), you can then trash the mounted disk image and the dmg file, and launch the application from /Applications as you are supposed to. [/QUOTE]
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