New Macbook 2024

I had to get a new macbook even though I was not at the end of my office computer cycle because the new networking upgrade was not working well with older mac systems.  

So, now I have a new 14 inch macbook pro.  

Checking apps to see what I need to install before I lose admin privledges.  

• Dropbox
• Eclipse  I don't really use this anymore either?
• Gnuplot?  Not sure if I want this anymore - I use JupyterLab instead these days.
• Imagemagick?
• Anaconda for sure and get JupyterLab Set up
• Texshop - I dont think i need anymore?  But maybe
• Turning point and active presenter i think i no longer need
• Mathematica they installed
• Latexit for sure
• Firefox and chrome already installed
• Zotero?
• Pasco Capstone

Set up tasks:

• Set up right click and trackpad preferences
• Set up mission control
• Finder - view - show path bar
• Installed Latexit, but it needs pdflatex
• Installed Anaconda
• Updated Anaconda
• Downloading homebrew so that I can install pdflatex - brew is installed
• basictex is successfully installed
• I added /Library/TeX/texbin to my path because https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/642248/i-have-installed-mactex-because-i-need-pdflatex-but-it-looks-like-not-open told me to. (I followed  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYq1PvDTUIA)
• but latexit still does not work - i still need ghostscript
• Installing ghostscript using brew: 
• brew update
• brew upgrade
• brew install ghostscript
• brew cleanup
• Trying to find where brew installed gs.  Seems to be in /opt/homebrew/bin
• But I cannot seem to tell latexit where that is.  It gives a gui directory finder and it cannot find opt
• went ahead and installed mactex.  Show be in /usr/local/texlive
• Quit and restarted and latexit found it no problem.  seems to work now.  Enough for tonight.

• Installing Eclipse 
• downloading the AArch64 option, because it is the ARM architecture and I opened terminal and typed uname -m and it gave a result of arm64.
• Looks OK!  Not sure if I'll ever use it.
• Texshop seems to be already downloaded with mactex.
• Capstone is installed
• installed imagemagick - not sure if I will ever use it.
• Rspec is installed (for spectrometer)
• Installed a bunch of programs on brew that MAY be useful later.

Record of getting stated with Qiskit

 I already have an account, and was able to log in.  

• Go to IBM Quantum Documentation, which tells me I need to install Qiskit.
• Install video:  https://docs.quantum.ibm.com/start/install
• In this video, he installs miniconda, but I already have anaconda installed on Physics Laptop 8706.
• I need to update anaconda - got a temp password for installs from ITS, and updated.
• Relaunched anaconda
• Follow:  https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/programming/9781838828448/1/ch01lvl1sec04/installing-qiskit
• Follow: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/set-up-virtual-environment-for-python-using-anaconda/
• Get an anaconda prompt from start menu ("Anaconda prompt")
• Check the version of conda in the path:  conda -V gives conda 24.5.0
• conda update conda ---- gives all requested packages already installed
• conda search “^python$” --- to find installed python versions.  Gives highest version as 3.12.3
• conda create --name cwq
• confirm y
• conda activate cwq
• pip install qiskit
• pip install matplotlib
• pip install qiskit-ibm-runtime
• pip install qiskit[visualization]
• pip install jupyter
• Open notebook as follows:  jupyter notebook path/to/notebook.ipynb 
• I made a directory in Quantum 200 folder called cwq
• pip install pylatexenc
• OK, but maybe I just want to use composer and I do not need qiskit installed?
• To get to composer
• Click on "Application Switcher" -> multiple dots upper right (not left) corner.
• Go to Learning
• Tools 
• Quantum Composer
• OK - I'm up and running, and I think this will be enough.  No need for all the installs, that makes things easier.
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