macos

macOS Setup

iTerm2 profile

The profile configuration files for iTerm2 must be copied manually. See the instructions.

Default shell

The default shell in macOS is zsh. To set it to bash:

# This will show something like /opt/homebrew/bin/bash
which -a bash

# chsh requires shells to be declared in /etc/shells
echo /opt/homebrew/bin/bash | sudo tee -a /etc/shells

sudo chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/bash $USER

Common gotcha with Homebrew

Check the output of something like which -a bash. If you see something like:

/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
/opt/homebrew/bin/bash
/bin/bash

You may have made this error: https://github.com/withfig/fig/discussions/300.

Note that .bash_profile handles this already.

MacTex

Install MacTeX. Besides getting you LaTeX, this also lets you render Markdown as PDF with pandoc.