Mac OS X Installation

Epsilon for Mac OS X supports drag and drop installation. Simply open the disk image in the "macos" folder on the CD-ROM and drag the Epsilon application inside to your Applications folder. Epsilon supports Mac OS X version 10.3.9 and later.

Epsilon includes a setup script, and there are some advantages to running it, though it's optional. The setup script will install Epsilon and its EEL compiler on your path, so you can run them from the command line more conveniently. And it will link Epsilon's Info documentation into the main Info tree, so other Info-reading programs can locate it. To run Epsilon's setup script from a shell prompt, type

sudo "/Applications/Epsilon.app/Contents/esetup"

assuming /Applications is where you installed Epsilon.

Epsilon for Mac OS X can run as an X11 program or as a curses-based console program. Normally it automatically chooses the best way: as an X11 program if there's a DISPLAY environment variable or if X11 is installed, otherwise as a console program. Installing X11 (from your Mac OS X installation disks starting in Mac OS X version 10.4; from an Apple download for earlier versions of OS X) is highly recommended. Epsilon for OS X works best as an X11 program.

Two commands in Epsilon (set-color and set-font) use an external shared gtk+ library to provide their X11 dialogs. Installing this library is recommended to make customizing Epsilon easier. If it's not installed, you'll have to set colors by editing a text file and select font names from a list. Running the commands will display a message explaining how to install the shared library, if it's not already installed.

Any time Epsilon documentation mentions the "Unix version" of Epsilon, this also includes the Mac OS X version. In particular, Epsilon for Mac OS X recognizes all the X11 flags described in the previous section, and all the X11 resource names documented there.

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