[GIS] Installing QGIS for Mac OS X

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I downloaded QGIS MacOS installer version 3.2. I downloaded and installed Python 3.7 as instructed before I started the installation of QGIS. I was able to install GDAL but when I try to install QGIS I get the error message that says "QGIS requires Python 3.6."

Does this mean I need to install an earlier version of Python?

If so, which version should I install?

I see there are multiple versions of Python 3.6.

Best Answer

The minor version matters, it must be 3.6. The patch version usually does not (3.6.N), but QGIS.org specifies 3.6.5 as a minimum.

You can not use Python 3.7 or non-python.org distributions (note: some people have reported mucking around with symlinks to mimic a standard python.org 3.6 install path to get python 3.6 from homebrew/anaconda working).

From the download instructions on QGIS.org:

This package uses the python.org Python 3.6, at least version 3.6.5, the "macosx10.9" build - other distributions are not supported.

As of today, the package you need is:

Python 3.6.8 - 2018-12-24 macOS 64-bit installer (NOT the macOS 64-bit/32-bit installer).

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