LaTeX Installation OS X

Basic installation

On OS X in order to install LaTeX there are a couple of options.

MacTeX

  1. Go to http://www.tug.org/mactex
  2. Download the latest MacTex package
  3. If it does not start automatically go to Downloads and open the zip
  4. Run the installer (MacTeX-20**.mpkg)

Mac Ports

~$ sudo port -v install texlive
~$ sudo port -v install texlive-math-extra texlive-latex-extra texlive-bibtex-extra

distribution which comes as a bundle called MiKTeX. Under the list of MiKTeX releases go to the download link for the most recent version. From that page download the installer.