wallger.blogg.se - Get latex for mac with homebrew

Suppose that on the Desktop, you have a file named asyfile. If you get an error at the./configure step, stating that there is no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH, a solution is to download and install Xcode (you can get it on the app store.) or Xcode tools

Run: cd ~/Downloads # or wherever you put the asymptote-x.xx.src.tgz file Install MacTeX: This takes some time as its a huge installation (4Gb) brew cask install mactex Install TeXMaker: This is a FOSS TeX Editor brew cask install. Installation is simple, you can either: Google BasicTeX to download and install it like you would other software on OS X or do it via the Terminal using brew.

Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app).

If all went well, Asymptote should be installed.

Double click the asyinstaller file and follow the instructions in the installer.

Unzip the folder if it was not automatically.

There are three ways to actually install Asymptote: using the AsyIntaller written by PrintrBot, installing it manually via terminal, or using Homebrew. Download it from MacTeX and follow the installation wizard, or install it using Homebrew Cask from the. Read and accept the conditions, then follow the on-screen instructions to install the program. If the file name was asymptote-2.70.src.tgz, you would replace x.xx with 2.70). MacTeX is a redistribution of TeX Live for MacOS. Once the file has downloaded, double-click on MacTeX.

Note that anywhere you see "x.xx", replace it with the Asymptote version number (e.g. The third was tested on Mac OS 11.3 "Big Sur"ĭownload the Asymptote source here (at the time of this edit, it is version 2.70) by selecting the latest version and downloading the asymptote-x.xx.src.tgz file. The first two installations were tested on Mac OS 10.15.7 "Catalina," but should work for most older systems as well as other Unix systems.