Neo4j Desktop

After opening Neo4j Desktop, you can find the Graph Data Science Library plugin in the Plugins tab of a database.

neo4j desktop2 plugins tab

Scroll down the list to find the entry titled Graph Data Science and press install. The installer then downloads the GDS library and installs it in the plugins directory of the database. This process should work for any version of Desktop.

Configuration

You can edit the configuration file for a database by clicking on the ellipsis (…​) button and opening the Settings…​ menu item.

The installer automatically adds the following entries to the configuration:

dbms.security.procedures.allowlist=gds.*
dbms.security.procedures.unrestricted=gds.*

The allowlist configuration entry is needed to allow executing the gds procedures.

This unrestricted configuration entry is necessary because the GDS library accesses low-level components of Neo4j to maximise performance.

If you are running MacOS (x86 or ARM), it is required to add the following configuration entry to the configuration:

server.jvm.additional=-Djol.skipHotspotSAAttach=true