On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:50 AM, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
hello folks
how about a bundle for installing lyx on mac os x? the bundle
should contain
precompiled lyx/qt (with changebars), tetex, imagemagick,
ghostscript, and
whatever needed to run lyx on mac. it is of cause possible to read
the docs
for each of these applications and install seperately, but imho mac
users
just want an installer.
i could sure use such a bundle right about now ...
I find i-Installer to be very good as a way of installing TeX.
Download a bundle of i-Installer, Ghostscript 8, and TeX from <ftp://
ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/macosx/volumes/tex/TeX-fat.dmg>. i-Installer
will handle the downloading and installing of ImageMagick as well --
which, like Martin, I'd recommend. (Note that if you want to install
this on multiple Macs, the ImageMagick.ii2 file that i-Installer
downloads can simply be copied to other Macs; double-clicking on it
will open it in i-Installer for easy installation.)
Then install LyX/Mac. Of course this won't get you change bars; for
this I'd recommend waiting for LyX-1.4.0 -- or download the source
and compile a development version yourself, with the understanding
that it's still buggy and not yet ready for release.
Yes, the i-Installer interface can be somewhat daunting until you get
used to it. But I'm sure I could do no better to produce a
maintainable, reasonably bug-free, and reasonably secure installer/
updater.
Bennett
