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| author | Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org> | 2016-07-25 19:41:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Florian Bruhin <git@the-compiler.org> | 2016-07-25 19:41:29 +0200 |
| commit | 2751e5795809356c27de78cc127370caabd3e76c (patch) | |
| tree | 3ad1f2e70c9ef769fa45516446ed0cd45199e504 | |
| parent | c618983b3da3f5867a2eeb9ac932e9dbaebe3e2a (diff) | |
| download | qutebrowser-2751e5795809356c27de78cc127370caabd3e76c.tar.gz qutebrowser-2751e5795809356c27de78cc127370caabd3e76c.zip | |
Update OS X install instructions
Closes #1656
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.asciidoc | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.asciidoc b/INSTALL.asciidoc index f81ef0b60..0c13e52b5 100644 --- a/INSTALL.asciidoc +++ b/INSTALL.asciidoc @@ -229,11 +229,17 @@ Then <<tox,install qutebrowser via tox>>. On OS X ------- -To install qutebrowser on OS X, you'll want a package manager, e.g. -http://brew.sh/[Homebrew] or https://www.macports.org/[MacPorts]. +The easiest way to install qutebrowser on OS X is to use the prebuilt `.app` +files from the +https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser/releases[release page]. + +Alternatively, you can install the dependencies via a package manager (like +http://brew.sh/[Homebrew] or https://www.macports.org/[MacPorts]) and run +qutebrowser from source. For Homebrew, a few extra steps are necessary since Homebrew dropped QtWebKit -from Qt 5.6. +from Qt 5.6 - however, some users reported this didn't work for them, so using +the `.app` is strongly encouraged. This installs a Qt 5.5 and symlinks it so PyQt5 will work with it instead of Qt 5.6. This requires that `qt5` is not installed via Homebrew: |