On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Davide Liessi <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2014-05-13 17:52 GMT+02:00 rif <[email protected]>: > > I was attempting to install Fresdcobaldi with Lilypond. All I can tell > you > > is that running a brew install frescobaldi told me I needed MacTeX. > > I'm not a Homebrew expert, but probably MacTeX is considered by > Homebrew a dependency of LilyPond itself. > That's correct. You should install LilyPond from [1] and then install Frescobaldi > through Homebrew with `brew install frescobaldi --without-lilypond` > (see [2] for details). > I would recommend this installation method, yes. That's unless the Frescobaldi native application is ready (sorry, haven't had a chance to test it yet), in which case I would recommend using the native application instead of Homebrew. > > @Marnen: can you confirm that `brew install frescobaldi` asks the user > to manually install XQuartz and MacTeX? Maybe we should clarify this > in [2]. > I don't think it asks for XQuartz. Rather, installing Lilypond displays the following message: lilypond: A LaTeX distribution is required to install. You can install MacTeX distribution from: http://www.tug.org/mactex/ Make sure that "/usr/texbin", or the location you installed it to, is in your PATH before proceeding. > Or maybe you could remove the dependency of Frescobaldi on LilyPond: > after all, both the download page [3] and the install guide [2] advise > to install a copy of LilyPond as a separate step; but this depends on > what is usually done in Homebrew, so I won't push for this solution > further. > I have mixed feelings about this. I strongly recommend installing the LilyPond.app bundle, then using brew install frescobaldi --without-lilypond. The reason that the Homebrew formula doesn't do that by default, though, is that I wanted to write the formula so that someone could take a pristine Homebrew installation, type "brew install frescobaldi", and get a usable Fresco installation with all dependencies -- including Lilypond -- satisfied. I'm not sure I made the right choice there. What do you think? > > Best wishes. > Davide Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser [email protected] http://www.marnen.org
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