Installing mactex and diversions

Readme for mactex install includes:

A custom install option is provided for users who want only part of the package. In particular, the package contains Ghostscript and the "convert" utility from Image Magick; users who already have Ghostscript and the full Image Magick may want to use custom install to avoid the versions provided here. The Latin Modern and TeX Gyre fonts are part of TeX Live and automatically available in TeX; by using custom install you can also install them in the system font folder and make them available to all Macintosh applications.

So I think I may try to install ghostscript and imagemagic separately. I want to try to put everything in the right places from the beginning so I don't have too much clutter.

Here's an article on why you should install into usr/local instead of usr/bin.

http://hivelogic.com/articles/using_usr_local/

I'm going to go ahead and choose MacPorts over Fink, based on the impression that I get from the blogs that it is more up to date. Looks like Homebrew is a good option too. We'll see...

Using this site.

Had to register as a mac developer to get access to Xcode which is needed for MacPorts. Don't remember having to do this for Fink. But it looks like homebrew requires this too.

Install successful (not tested)

Macports install successful (not tested)

Used MacPorts to install ImageMagick and got the following errors:

Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: could not read "/tmp/mpextractZQRpVIRz/opt/local/share/man/man3/bn_print.3ssl.gz": no such file or directory
Error: Failed to install openssl
Log for openssl is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_devel_openssl/openssl/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: ghostscript xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-libxcb python27 openssl python_select readline sqlite3 python27 xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice lcms liblzma p7zip urw-fonts
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

-convert command not found in bash.... will look into this later.

Installing MacTex (small convert package, I think). Successful install it seems.