Installing QGIS 1.8.0-2 on Mountain Loin

Recently rebuilt my macbook pro,. Today I am installing QGIS . This is how I installed it. Perhaps there are better ways.

QGIS Mac OSX

Sites I referenced

Eospansite Installing qgis 1.6on macosx 
(Version 20130108)
Eospansite Installing gdal on macosx


QGIS installation requires the command line. It and it's dependencies are not packaged up in a single dmg.

Download from kyngchaos

• QGIS-1.8.0-2.dmg
• Dependencies
• GDAL_Complete-1.9.dmg
• GSL_Framework-1.15-2.dmg
• Optional
• GRASS-6.4.2-5-Snow.dmg
• dependencies
• FreeType_Framework-2.4.10-1.dmg
• PIL-1.1.7-4.dmg
• cairo_Framework-1.12.2-1.dmg
• R-2.15.3.pkg (local mirror)

Install order

• GDAL Complete
• Both gdal.pkg and numpy.pkg
• GSL Framework
• FreeType Framework
• Cairo Framework
• PIL
• R
• GRASS
• GRASS and GRASS GDAL plugin
• QGIS