OSX Developer System installation

This guide assumes a fresh install of Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Homebrew

See https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation

• Install xcode (with X11)
• run this simple script: ruby -e "$(curl https://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"
• edit PATH (e.g in ~/.bash_profile): export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH (remember to logout and login again for the changes in .bash_profile to get picked up)

python and stuff

Before installing stuff with pip make sure you are using the correct version.:

pip --version

should return something like:

pip 0.8.2 from /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.1/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-0.8.2-py2.7.egg (python 2.7)

some useful packages:

brew install python
brew install wget git hub
brew install jpeg lcms pip
pip install mercurial
brew install vcprompt
pip install virtualenv
brew install virtualenvwrapper
brew install bash-completion
pip install ipython
brew install gettext

PIL

Note

checkout http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow as a possible alternative

use this version of pil (http://dist.repoze.org/PIL-1.1.6.tar.gz) install with FREETYPE_ROOT = ("/usr/x11/lib","/usr/x11/include",) in setup.py. Then:

python setup.py build_ext -i
python setup.py install

since this gets installed with the PIL prefix, add a PIL.pth file in /Library/Python/2.x.x/site-packages containing PIL-1.1.6-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg/PIL

Aggdraw

aggdraw provides much better anti-aliasing than PIL . And lots of other stuff.

use this version: http://bitbucket.org/2degrees/aggdraw-64bits/src make sure to use python setup.py build_ext -i and then python setup.py install enabling freetype does not seem to work (probably broken c-code)

MySQL

brew install mysql
mysql_install_db
cp /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/x.x.x/com.mysql.mysqld.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mysql.mysqld.plist
brew install mysql-connector-c
pip install mysql-python

Postgres

brew install postgresql
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
launchctl load -w /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/x.x.x/org.postgresql.postgres.plist
pip install psycopg2

Starting and stopping postgres directly:

pg_ctl -D #{var}/postgres -l #{var}/postgres/server.log start
pg_ctl -D #{var}/postgres stop -s -m fast

Creating an inital user:

createuser # admin / empty password

Other useful tools

sudo brew install ssh-copy-id