Macintosh resources

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

LaTeX

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

Python

Suggested package: http://www.python.org/download

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