Re: [proteowizard-support] Issues downloading Proteowizard onto MacBook Air

[Chambers, M. <mat...@gm...>]

Hi Grace,

An MSI file is a Windows installer. We don't have an official Mac build and for Linux there's no installer, only a tarball of binary 
executables. Your options are:
1. Use a Windows machine or virtual machine (e.g. Parallels) and install the MSI file on there and use that for your conversion.
2. Use the command-line (Terminal) to run the ProteoWizard Docker container, which does allow for non-virtualized vendor file conversion on 
Mac and Linux. I don't know your level of proficiency but if you don't already know how to use a command-line tool then this option is 
probably unrealistic.
3. Use a web conversion tool such as usegalaxy.eu's msconvert wrapper: 
https://usegalaxy.eu/root?tool_id=toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu%2Frepos%2Fgalaxyp%2Fmsconvert%2Fmsconvert

#3 is the easiest but the least performant (you have to upload your input, queue the conversion and wait for it to finish, then download the 
result).

Hope this helps,
-Matt


On 5/13/2021 1:00 PM, Grace Freundlich wrote:
>
> To whom this may concern,
>
> My name is Grace Freundlich and I am hoping to use the MSConvert program within Proteowizard to convert my GC/MS files from raw to 
> mzXMLfile types. However, I’m having issues accessing the software on my computer. I found these download instructions here: 
> http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net/user_installation_simple.shtml <http://proteowizard.sourceforge.net/user_installation_simple.shtml>
>
> But I’m concerned my issue is not having the web installer installed properly, but I’m unsure how to proceed.. After hitting the download 
> file, I see the following file name: pwiz-setup-3.0.21132.3043871d0-x86_64.msi. When I try to use the Archive Utility program to unzip it, 
> it converts it to a .cpgz file that I can’t open. Thank you for your help and let me know if you need more information from me.
>
> Best,
>
> Grace
>
>