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| author | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2018-05-19 16:53:18 -0700 |
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| committer | John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu> | 2018-05-19 16:54:05 -0700 |
| commit | 41b205f4b089f4f5f94ff01a56aed3e02faa5537 (patch) | |
| tree | 9228363f16db2825ae42921510330931e5d82993 /INSTALL.md | |
| parent | 884aef31c55e375cd62fcb55a71829d005087cae (diff) | |
| download | pandoc-41b205f4b089f4f5f94ff01a56aed3e02faa5537.tar.gz | |
Clarify macos install in INSTALL.md.
Make the binary package installer the recommended method, and
note that homebrew installs from source and takes a lot of
disk space.
Closes #4661.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index b299653d2..abddaa2e4 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ ## macOS - - You can install pandoc using - [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`. - - There is a package installer at pandoc's [download page]. If you later want to uninstall the package, you can do so by downloading [this script][uninstaller] @@ -30,6 +27,12 @@ unzip the file and move the binaries and man pages to whatever directory you like. + - Alternatively, you can install pandoc using + [homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`. + Note: This method installs pandoc from source, so it + will take a long time and a lot of disk space for the + ghc compiler and dependent Haskell libraries. + - For PDF output, you'll also need LaTeX. Because a full [MacTeX] installation takes more than a gigabyte of disk space, we recommend installing [BasicTeX](http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html) |