[Gwyddion-users] FYI, Installing Gwyddion on Mac with homebew

[Hwansoo Suh]

Hi, all.

In the official download page of Gwyddion, for Mac, only MacPorts and Fink
packages are presented.

But if you prefer Homebrew as your main package manager in Mac OS X, there
is an alternative installation method. See http://brewformulas.org/Gwyddion
for more information.

Hope this helps mac users who use Gwyddion.

Best,
Hwansoo

[David Nečas (Yeti)]

Post by Hwansoo Suh
But if you prefer Homebrew as your main package manager in Mac OS X, there
is an alternative installation method. See http://brewformulas.org/Gwyddion
for more information.

Thanks, I added a link to the download page on gwyddion.net.

Are you in contact with the formula authors/maintainers? The
dependencies should include either minizip or libzip for ZIP file
reading. Otherwise the support for a number of SPM file formats is
missing, see

http://gwyddion.net/documentation/user-guide-en/installation-dependencies.html

Since designing file formats as stuff packed into a ZIP archive is
fashionable nowadays, this group of file formats is only going to grow.

Regards,

Yeti


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[Hwansoo Suh]

Thank you.

Although I don't have a contact to the author or maintainer, I think we can
fork the project in
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gwyddion.rb
and request a pull for update.

Thank you.

Best,
Hwansoo

Post by Hwansoo Suh

Post by Hwansoo Suh
But if you prefer Homebrew as your main package manager in Mac OS X,

there

Post by Hwansoo Suh
is an alternative installation method. See

http://brewformulas.org/Gwyddion

Post by Hwansoo Suh
for more information.

Thanks, I added a link to the download page on gwyddion.net.
Are you in contact with the formula authors/maintainers? The
dependencies should include either minizip or libzip for ZIP file
reading. Otherwise the support for a number of SPM file formats is
missing, see
http://gwyddion.net/documentation/user-guide-en/installation-dependencies.html
Since designing file formats as stuff packed into a ZIP archive is
fashionable nowadays, this group of file formats is only going to grow.
Regards,
Yeti
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[Tino Wagner]

"Maintainer“ here, if you wish so. I pushed the first Gwyddion formula to Homebrew a few years ago and try to keep it up to date. Adding minizip should be rather straightforward, by just adding it as a dependency. By any means, feel free to do it! :-)

Best wishes,
Tino

Post by Hwansoo Suh
Thank you.
Although I don't have a contact to the author or maintainer, I think we can fork the project in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gwyddion.rb and request a pull for update.
Thank you.
Best,
Hwansoo

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[David Nečas (Yeti)]

Post by Hwansoo Suh
Although I don't have a contact to the author or maintainer, I think we can
fork the project in
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gwyddion.rb
and request a pull for update.

Please do so as you evidently know where and how to do it, unlike me.

Regards,

Yeti


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[Tino Wagner]

I added the minizip dependency to the Gwyddion formula with the PR #48414 yesterday. There are now a bunch more filetype plugins available, but I don’t have any such files for testing. If something doesn’t work with Gwyddion on OS X/Homebrew, please tell me and I will look into it.

Btw, it would be nice to add Homebrew as an alternative to the installation instructions. It’s as easy as installing Homebrew, see [1], and typing "brew install gwyddion".

Best regards,
Tino

[1]: http://brew.sh/

Post by David Nečas (Yeti)

Post by Hwansoo Suh
Although I don't have a contact to the author or maintainer, I think we can
fork the project in
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gwyddion.rb
and request a pull for update.

Please do so as you evidently know where and how to do it, unlike me.
Regards,
Yeti
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[David Nečas (Yeti)]

Post by Tino Wagner
I added the minizip dependency to the Gwyddion formula with the PR
#48414 yesterday. There are now a bunch more filetype plugins
available...

Thanks.

Post by Tino Wagner
Btw, it would be nice to add Homebrew as an alternative to the
installation instructions. It’s as easy as installing Homebrew, see
[1], and typing "brew install gwyddion".

There is a pointer to to Homebrew at the download page. So what should
be written in the user guide? Please post the actual text for inclusion
(or patch for the DocBook sources). I cannot write instructions for a
package management system I have never seen running on an operation
system I do not use...

Regards,

Yeti