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Update macOS installation instructions #1382

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Expand Up @@ -13,19 +13,35 @@ Install
The OpenEXR library is available for download and installation in
binary form via package managers on many Linux distributions. See
`https://pkgs.org/download/openexr
<https://pkgs.org/download/openexr>`_ for a complete list. The common
ones that generally provide current releases include:
<https://pkgs.org/download/openexr>`_ for a complete list.

* `Fedora <https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/openexr/openexr/>`_
* `Gentoo <https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-libs/openexr>`_
* `Ubuntu <https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/kinetic/openexr>`_
RHEL/CentOS:

.. code-block::

$ sudo yum makecache
$ sudo yum install OpenEXR

Ubuntu:

.. code-block::

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openexr

Beware that some distributions are out of date and only provide
distributions of outdated releases OpenEXR. We recommend against using
OpenEXR v2, and we *strongly* recommend against using OpenEXR v1.

On macOS, we do not recommend installation via HomeBrew because the
distribution is outdated.
On macOS, install via `Homebrew <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/openexr>`_:

.. code-block::

$ brew install openexr

We do not recommend installation via
`Macports <https://ports.macports.org/port/openexr>`_ because the
distribution is out of date.

Also note that the official OpenEXR project does not provide supported
python bindings. ``pip install openexr`` installs the `openexrpython
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