Setting up a new Mac

Here is a screenshot.

I will now discuss how I setup a new Mac. I use homebrew. It makes it very easy to maintain all the packages up to date.

Install homebrew and some pertinent packages

xcode-select --install

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Install git

brew install git

Install Git-Credential-Manager

brew tap microsoft/git
brew install --cask git-credential-manager-core

Install powerline fonts

git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts
cd fonts
./install.sh

Use powerline fonts in shell

Go to Terminal -> Preferences Change font to powerline I am using Roboto Mono Light Powerline 18pt

git clone git://github.com/stephenway/monokai.terminal.git

cd monokai.terminal

open monokai.terminal

(set this theme as default)

Install Zoom

brew install --cask zoom

Install Firefox

brew install --cask firefox

Install VSCode

brew install --cask visual-studio-code

Install OBSStudio

brew install --cask obs

VLC

brew install --cask vlc

wget

brew install wget

Download miniconda wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh sh Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

Anaconda path setup in zsh

source ~/miniconda3/bin/activate conda init zsh

Install mamba (faster than conda) conda install mamba -n base -c conda-forge

Download oh-my-zsh sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

VSCode configure Python Cmd + Shift + p -> Select Python Interpreter -> Point to the miniconda one

Install LaTeX (tinyTeX)

First, install quarto using https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/

See https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/latex_installation.html for more

quarto install tool tinytex

tlmgr install pgfplots psnfss beamertheme-metropolis pgfopts type1cm cm-super underscore dvipng adjustbox collectbox collection-fontsrecommended enumitem logreq ucs xstrin sourcesanspro sourcecodespro                  

ln -s ~/Library/TinyTeX/bin/*/dvipng /usr/local/bin/

Searching for a missing .sty file

`tlmgr search –global –file “/sourcesanspro.sty”``

Installing TexStudio brew install --cask texstudio

FFMPeg brew install ffmpeg

Imagemagick brew install imagemagick

Ghostscript brew install ghostscript

Install pandoc

brew install pandoc

Viewing installed packages

brew leaves > brew.txt

The content of brew.txt is:

boost
cmake
ffmpeg
fish
git
graphviz
ilmbase
imagemagick
pandoc
r
rtmpdump
swig
vim
wget

brew list --cask > casks.txt

The content of casks.txt is:

anydesk
arduino
audacity
firefox
google-chrome
inkscape
keycastr
mactex
notion
obs
pdf-expert
pycharm
rstudio
simplenote
texstudio
visual-studio-code
vlc
zoom

Installing standard Python packages using mamba

mamba install numpy scipy matplotlib pandas jupyter ipython seaborn rich -c conda-forge

Periodically updating all packages mamba update --all -c conda-forge