It is now the recommended choice, as it contains platform specific latex binaries, such as XeTeX and MacTeX. See for example TeX Distributions at, Common LaTeX distributions at the Latex Project or. If you use MacPort, use MacPorts to install it, otherwise install it manually. If you use a Mac and don't want to decide yourself: install TeX Live.

What typesetting variant to use ( LaTeX, ConTeXt or others).

What user interface to pick ( TeXShop, LyX, or commandline).

How to install your distribution (manually, with i-Installer, Fink or MacPorts).

What distribution to use ( teTeX, XeTeX, TeX Live or others).

If you want to install TeX, you need to think about three things:

2 Install ConTeXt and LaTeX using portsįirst of all, there is TeX.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.

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.

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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. If the file name was asymptote-2.70.src.tgz, you would replace x.xx with 2.70). 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.

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