Mplus Platforms

The Mac OS X version comes with an Editor and a Diagrammer. The Editor for the Mac OS X version does not currently support plots requested using the PLOT command. Instead, the GH5 file produced by the PLOT command can be read and plots made by the R program using the HDF5 package. Click here for R functions for plots.

Mplus does not run natively on Apple’s Macs with the M1 or M2 chips. Mplus does run on M1 and M2 Macs using Rosetta, a translation layer, that allows Intel-based software to run on the M1 and M2 chips. More information about this can be found on Apple’s website at https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

Note that it has been reported that the performance of Mplus does diminish on M1 and M2 Macs under the Rosetta translation. There are currently no plans to make Mplus run natively on M1 or M2 Macs. This decision is based on the availability of the current compiler used by Mplus. Future availability of Mplus on M1 and M2 Macs may be impacted as a result.

The Linux version does not currently come with an Editor or a Diagrammer. The Linux version is available from the command line. Plots are available for the Linux version using the GH5 file produced by the PLOT command. It can be read and plots made by the R program using the HDF5 package. Click here for R functions for plots.

The Linux distributions that have been tested are Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, Debian, and Gentoo. Mplus for Linux does not run on the Sun Solaris operating system. The multiprocessing feature in Mplus for Linux is the standard multiprocessing feature available in Mplus for Windows. The Linux version does not currently have special cluster computing capabilities.

Note: Mplus does not run on Citrix servers.