How to make LyX work with Mac OS 13.1:solved

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Hal,

the command is

	 sudo xcode-select --install

you will then be asked for your password.

It is a system wide installation of the command line tools (of XCode)
and hence must be done as administrator (technically root).

The complete XCode will of course also install python3 but is a few GB
too much.

el


On 14/12/2022 13:50, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2022, at 5:38 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 05:02:30PM -0700, Hal Kierstead via lyx-users wrote:
>>> All -
>>>
>>> I just upgraded to Mac OS 13.1. I was not given a chance to install
>>> python. How do I check if I have the right version of python?
>>>
>>> I cannot reconfigure LyX. I get the message: The system
>>> reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX may
>>> not be able to work properly. Please reconfigure again if needed.
>>>
>>> Reconfiguring again does not work either.
>>>
>>> Also, I have a bind file that LyX finds, but does not use. Is this
>>> because LyX needs to be reconfigured?
>>>
>>> I tried reinstalling LyX, but that did not help.
>>>
>>> What should I do next?
>>
>> I don't have any experience with macOS, but one user found that the
>> following worked:
>>
>>  xcode-select --install
>>
>> source: https://twitter.com/IvanWerning/status/1599544006962139136
>>
>> Scott --
> Thanks Scott. I forgot to reply to the list.
> 
>  For some reason this failed to install xcode, but downloading it from
>  the app store worked, and now my LyX is working. Probably I should
>  not have needed to download all of xcode, but it is simple this way.
> 
> Hal
> 

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