Installing on Mac

The installation bundle installs the entire Nuke family, including Hiero and HieroPlayer, and icons for the various components appear in your installation folder.

Note:  Some modern anti-virus software may wrongly assume that certain files in the Nuke installer are suspicious. Examples of these files include libnuke-12.0.0.so and geolib-runtime-prof.so. If you have trouble installing Nuke on your machine, try disabling your anti-virus software before installation. Don't forget to restart your anti-virus software after installation.

Installing with the User Interface (UI)

  1. Download the correct .dmg installation file from our website https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke/download
  2. Double-click on the .dmg to start the installation.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to install the application. By default, the install directory is:

    4. /Applications/Nuke<version>

  4. Proceed to Launching on Mac.

Installing from the Terminal

  1. Download the correct .dmg installation file from our website at https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke/download.
  2. Launch a Terminal window.
  3. To mount the .dmg installation file, use the hdiutil attach command with the directory where you saved the installation file. For example, if you saved the installation file in /Builds/Nuke, use the following command:

    4. hdiutil attach /Builds/Nuke/Nuke<version>-mac-x86_64.dmg

  4. Read and acknowledge the End User License Agreement (EULA) by pressing Y at the end of the text.

    5. Tip:  If you've already read and agreed to the terms of the EULA, you can skip to the end of the text by pressing Q.

    The installer is mounted as a disk image.

  5. Enter the following command:

    6. pushd /Volumes/Nuke<version>-mac-x86_64

    This stores the directory path in memory, so it can be returned to later.

  6. To install the application, copy the Nuke<version> directory to the Applications directory using the following command:
  7. cp -R Nuke<version> /Applications/
  8. Enter the following command:

    9. popd

    This changes to the directory stored by the pushd command.

  9. Finally, use the following command to eject the mounted disk image:

    10. hdiutil detach /Volumes/Nuke<version>-mac-x86_64