Command to install does not work on Mac (M2 chip)

[cossio]

I tried running the following command on a MacBook (M2 chip):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://drop-sh.fullyjustified.net |sh

It gives the following error:

tectonic(drop-installer.sh): unknown CPU type: arm64

Is there any other way to install?

[pkgw]

For Macs on ARM chips ("Apple Metal", right?), you have to compile it yourself or use the conda-forge package, because we don't yet have CI builds for that platform. I've started playing around with seeing if I can get a build going because it would definitely be nice to have, but we use Azure Pipelines for CI and they don't have Metal native hosts (I think??) so it will probably take a while to get anything going.

edit: or use Homebrew, thanks for the tip @cossio!

[cossio]

I got it installed with homebrew: brew install tectonic works fine.

[pkgw]

In #959 I've prototyped a CI job to create a Tectonic build for Apple Metal. Would anyone be able to give this file a spin and see if it works? Thanks!

https://newton.cx/~peter/files/tectonic-0.11.0+20221025-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz

[pkgw]

OK, hopefully this is fixed with the 0.12 release and tectonic-typesetting/tectonic-typesetting.github.io#44!

[ghost]

@pkgw 👋
I downloaded that M1 build and tried executing raw.
Apple does not like it since it is not signed.

I executed this:

 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine tectonic

Then, I verified it executes!

./tectonic -V
Tectonic 0.11.0+20221025

[pkgw]

Thanks! If anyone can try the curl -fsSL https://drop-sh.fullyjustified.net/ |sh installer on Apple Silicon, I think that should work now too, but I don't think I've seen any confirmation of that.

[ghost]

$ curl -fsSL https://drop-sh.fullyjustified.net/ | sh
tectonic(drop-installer.sh): downloading version 0.12.0 for architecture aarch64-apple-darwin
Warning: Not enforcing strong cipher suites for TLS, this is potentially less secure
Warning: Detected OS X platform older than 10.13
Warning: Not enforcing TLS v1.2, this is potentially less secure

tectonic(drop-installer.sh): woohoo, the `tectonic` program has been unpacked into the current directory!
tectonic(drop-installer.sh): consider moving it to a directory in $PATH so that it can be run from anywhere

And

./tectonic -V
Tectonic 0.12.0

[pkgw]

Awesome, thanks!