Once installed Homebrew and Homebrew Cask, it is the time to move forward installing MacTeX and TexMaker, respectively the LaTeX compilation platform (i.e. usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )" brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask Hereafter, the installation process for Homebrew and Homebrew Cask. Unfortunately – again! – Homebrew is not enough to installing LaTeX on a Mac machine, Homebrew Cask is needed: it extends Homebrew just by adding 1 command which allows to a former ‘brew’ to reach 2593 Casks out there. Homebrew is written in Ruby it provides an easy to use CLI (Command Line Interface) to deal with install/uninstall processes it is stable, and does its job reasonably well. With a package manager, everything would be much easier, and maybe this post was not needed at all.Ī quite standard tool used on Mac OS machines to install packages is Homebrew. ![]() Mac OS is a BSD-based operating system which unfortunately does not have any official package manager tool, like ‘yum’ on RedHat or ‘apt’ on Ubuntu. ![]() And, as a first step I had to install it on my MacBook Pro, a supposedly easy and straightforward task for a Linux enthusiast, right? Well, yes and no, and let me argument why. Why? Simply, because I did not have any opportunity to do that again after my Academic studies and research. It is a long time now that I have not touched any LaTeX.
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