Molden installation on macOS?

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Today I tried to get an access to Molden to install it and use for processing the results of my calculations. Unfortunately the ftp seems to be down or is it only my personal connection issues?
My additional question is foreseeing: Does molden work on the latest macOS Catalina (v. 10.15)?

Cody Aldaz · Accepted Answer

I believe that these instructions from this YouTube video "How to install Molden on Mac (OS X High Sierra)" work well

For some reason the "ftp" button on Molden's website is broken however, the curl command works easily

Here is a complete set of instructions from that video:

Install Homebrew:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install Cask:
brew install cask
Install XQuartz:
brew cask install xquartz
Install complier:
brew install gcc
Change working directory to desktop:
cd desktop
Download Molden source code:
curl ftp://ftp.cmbi.ru.nl/pub/molgraph/molden/molden5.7.tar.gz -o molden5.7.tar.gz
Unpack downloaded file manually or use command:
tar -xzf molden5.7.tar.gz
Change working directory to molden5.7:
cd molden5.7
Compile Molden:
make all
Remove original files (optional):
rm -r */*.o */*.c */*.f */*.h */*.bak
Start Molden:
./molden
(Optional) cop molden executable to ~/bin and make sure ~/bin is in $PATH

Obviously skip installing Homebrew, Cask, XQuartz, gcc, if you don't need them!

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