Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of MacM1Notes

Timestamp:

Jul 5, 2021 2:54:29 PM (5 months ago)

Author:

toby

Comment:

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MacM1Notes

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 = Installing a Native "Apple Silicon" GSAS-II Version on MacOS = 
 
-After something like 4 months of occasional trial and much error, I was finally able to get GSAS-II to run on a ARM Mac running 11.2.3. 
+After something like 4 months of occasional trial and much error, I was finally able to get GSAS-II to run on a ARM Mac running MacOS 11.2.3. 
 
-As of right now (6/24/21), Anaconda is not supporting ARM Macs and the wxpython version of miniforge is broken, so I had to install Python and associated packages with [https://brew.sh homebrew]. 
+As I write this (6/24/21), Anaconda is not supporting ARM Macs and the wxpython version of miniforge is broken, so I had to install Python and associated packages with [https://brew.sh homebrew]. 
 
 == Installing Homebrew == 
@@ -13 +13 @@
 xcode-select --install
 }}}
- 1. Log into a admin account (I used `su admin` in a terminal)
+ 1. Log into a admin account (I used `su admin` in a terminal running as a standard user)
  3. Install homebrew using command: 
 {{{
 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
 }}}
- 4. To add brew to path, use command:
+
+ 4. ** To add brew to path**, use command:
 {{{
 eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
@@ -44 +45 @@
 == Install GSAS-II ==
 
+These steps are best done from a user account rather than an admin account. You can log out of the admin account or simply close the terminal window used before and open a new one. 
+
 {{{
+eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
 mkdir ~/GSASII
 cd ~/GSASII
@@ -53 +57 @@
 == Compiling GSAS-II fortran routines ==
 
-You probably do not need this. There is now a set of M1 (ARM aka Apple Silicon) binaries in 
+You probably do not need this. There is now a set of M1 (aka ARM, aka Apple Silicon) binaries in 
 
 This was fairly hard and I don't know what steps were required in retrospect. Also, it might have been better to use `brew install gfortran scons` rather than using miniforge to install gfortran. (I downloaded https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-MacOSX-arm64.sh from