Macintosh resources

This page contains useful information for Macintosh users. Please do feel free to add content!

X Windows

Make sure you install the latest version of http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki because the X11 shipped with OS X Leopard is not as updated as this one.

LaTeX

Suggested package: http://www.tug.org/mactex

Related software:

• For creating LaTeX equations on-the-fly (e.g., drag-and-drop to a presentation): http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php

Python

Suggested package: http://www.python.org/download (the standard one)

To install python modules in the user account follow these steps: (this is an example where modules are installed in ~/Library/python, adapt accordingly)

• create a file named ~/.pydistutils.cfg containing

[install]
home=~/Library/python

• add the following line to ~/.profile

export PYTHONPATH=~/Library/python/lib/python

Make sure you check the Python resources page in this mediawiki.

Linux software

Suggested package: http://www.macports.org

Emacs

Suggested package: http://aquamacs.org

GIMP

Suggested package: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html