COMSOL 5.1 Hotfix for El Capitan (OS X 10.11)

Released October 9, 2015

To run COMSOL 5.1 on El Capitan (OS X 10.11), please perform the following steps:

For COMSOL Multiphysics installations

  1. Make sure that you are running COMSOL version 5.1.0.234. If the version number is not 5.1.0.234, then first please download and install COMSOL 5.1 Update 3.
  2. Download the .dmg file below. Double-click the downloaded .dmg file to mount it and then double-click the COMSOL Installer icon. Select your COMSOL Multiphysics installation folder, usually called COMSOL51/Multiphysics. Click Install.

Note: If you later re-run the COMSOL Multiphysics installer, you will have to also download and re-apply the hotfix.

For COMSOL Server installations

No changes are needed.