Catalina4Astronomers

Xcode

AppStore: Xcode 
terminal: xcode-select --install

Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

By default, Homebrew installs packages in: /usr/local/Cellar/ and symbolic links in /usr/local/opt/.

Expanding repository list

brew tap "homebrew/bundle"
brew tap "homebrew/core"
brew tap "brewsci/science"
brew tap "brewsci/bio"
brew tap "brewsci/base"
brew tap "brewsci/num"
brew update

Other useful software

brew install coreutils
brew install findutils
brew install gnu-sed
brew install gnu-tar
brew install gnu-which
brew cask install xquartz
brew install ghostscript
brew install gv
brew install texshop
brew install imagemagick
brew install pgplot

# Edit ~/.bash_profile
PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/findutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/findutils/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/grep/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/grep/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-which/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-which/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"
PATH="/usr/local/opt/make/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/make/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"

python

brew install pyenv 
pyenv install 3.8.5 # 3.8.5 being the latest python version
pyenv global 3.8.5 # set it as a global default version for pyenv environments
pyenv version
# Edit ~/.bash_profile with 
if command -v pyenv 1>/dev/null 2>&1; then
 eval "$(pyenv init -)"
fi

pip

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py

Anaconda

git clone --recursive git://github.com/astropy/astropy.git
cd astropy
pip install .
conda install astropy
conda install pytest-astropy

pPXF

pip install --upgrade ppxf
pip show ppxf

Bertin's software

brew install sextractor
brew install scamp
sudo port install swarp

Astrometry

 brew install svn
 brew install --HEAD netpbm
 brew install cfitsio
 brew install md5sha1sum
 brew install astrometry-net
 cd /usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/0.82
 mkdir data
 cd data
 wget http://data.astrometry.net/4200/wget.sh .
 sh wget.sh
 # Test: 
 cd ..
 solve-field --scale-low 10 examples/apod4.jpg

Save

# At the end save the list of installed software with brew in the file Brewfile
 brew bundle dump
 brew bundle
 brew bundle cleanup
# Check the list
 cat Brewfile