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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/tugstyle.css">  <title>MacTeX - TeX Users Group</title> </head><body>  <table width=100%> <tr> <td> <td><A HREF="./mainpage2025.html"> <img align="left" border=0 src="./images/mactexlogoX5.png"> </td> <td align='center'>   </td>  <td><A HREF="https://tug.org"> <img valign="top" align="right" border=0 alt="logonavy" SRC="images/logonavy.jpg" WIDTH="80"></A> </td> </tr> </table> <hr>   <DIV ALIGN='center'> The MacTeX-2025 Distribution  </DIV>  Take Me There: To download and install MacTeX without further ado, click the link <a href="./mactex-download.html">MacTeX Download Page</a>. Page for Beginners: If you are curious about TeX and LaTeX and would like to try it out, click <a href='beginners.html'>Easy Setup</a>. This page explains how to install and try TeX and LaTeX, and how to easily remove the installation if you decide not to use it. About TeX Live, MacTeX, and BasicTeX: TeX Live is the standard distribution of TeX, LaTeX, and related programs produced by TeX Users Groups across the world. The distribution runs on the Macintosh, Windows, Linux, and Unix machines, using the same packages and fonts on all of these platforms. The binary programs are compiled separately for each platform, but from the same source code. The icon at the top right of our web pages is a link which takes you to the home page of TUG, the English language TeX Users Group. MacTeX is a package which installs TeX Live on the Macintosh. The package is notarized by Apple and uses Apple's standard install technology. It contains native code for both Intel and Arm processors. When installation is complete, the software is fully configured and ready to use. The icon at the top left of our web pages is a link which takes you to this MacTeX home page. The MacTeX working group inside TUG provides two install packages. One, BasicTeX, is relatively small, about 90 MB, but fully capable of typesetting standard TeX and LaTeX documents. The other, MacTeX, is much larger and includes essentially all software available for typesetting with TeX-like systems, including TeX, LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt, etc. This complete system supports almost every written language in use today, including languages of Western Europe, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and a multitude of more obscure scripts. BasicTeX and MacTeX can coexist on the same machine, so users experimenting with TeX may reasonably install BasicTeX to try it out. The full MacTeX is recommended if you are certain that you will use TeX, even if you are a beginner, because any example in a book will automatically work and no time will be wasted adding extra missing components to the distribution. Four Ways to Install TeX Live on a Macintosh: MacTeX-2025 requires macOS 10.14, Mojave, or higher and runs natively on Intel and Arm processors. To download, click <a href="./mactex-download.html">MacTeX Download</a>. The smaller BasicTeX-2025 also requires macOS 10.14, Mojave, or higher and runs natively on Intel and Arm processors. To download, click <a href="./morepackages.html">BasicTeX Download</a>. You can also install TeX Live 2025 using the TeX Live Unix Install Script. This method supports macOS 10.6, Snow Leopard, and higher and runs on Intel and Arm processors. To download, click <a href="./mactex-unix-download.html">Unix Download</a>. To obtain older versions of MacTeX if you are running macOS 10.3 through 10.13, click <a href='oldversions.html'>Older Versions</a>. <hr> Features of MacTeX: <ul> <li>See <a href="./aboutmactex.html">MacTeX and MacTeXtras</a> for a brief description of MacTeX and MacTeXtras. Our policy on which versions of macOS to support is described in <a href="./SupportedSystems.html">Policy on Supported Systems</a>. See <a HREF="./whatsinthepackage.html">What's in the MacTeX package</a> for a complete description of what is installed, and read <a HREF="./uninstalling.html">Uninstalling</a> to uninstall MacTeX. <li>Changes in the 2025 version of the software are listed in <a href="./newfeatures.html">New Features in MacTeX-2025 and TeX Live 2025</a>. The MacTeXtras curated list of documentation and links to additional TeX and LaTeX software is available at <a href="./mactextras.html"> MacTeXtras</a>. <li> We are often asked about installing additional fonts in TeX Live. Important changes introduced in 2012 and modified in more recent years affect configuring TeX for these new fonts. These changes are described in <a href="./Adding-Fonts-and-Restricted-Shell-Escape.pdf">Adding-Fonts-and-Restricted-Shell-Escape</a> by Herbert Schulz, which also includes information on Restricted Shell Escape. TeX Live automatically converts eps illustrations to pdf illustrations for appropriate typesetting engines. See <a href="./Eps-Tiff-Conversion.pdf">Eps-Tiff-Conversion.pdf</a> for details. <li> Suggestions on keeping TeX up to date are given in <a href="./updateschedule.html">Update Schedule</a>. In particular, daily updates of programs in TeX Live can be obtained using <a HREF="http://amaxwell.github.io/tlutility/">TeX Live Utility</a>. Installation of MacTeX-2025 does not overwrite older versions of TeX Live, and switching between these versions is described in <a HREF="./multipletexdistributions.html">Multiple TeX Distributions</a>. <li>The spell checker cocoAspell does not mark TeX commands as misspelled. It is not installed by MacTeX. To get it, see: <a HREF="https://github.com/leuski/cocoAspell">cocoAspell project</a>. </ul> <hr> Solving Problems <ul> <li> For problems downloading the software, see <a HREF="./downloading.html">Downloading Issues</a>. Other common problems specific to the Macintosh are described at <a href="./MacSpecificComplications.html">Mac-specific Complications</a>. For help with fonts, see <a href="./Adding-Fonts-and-Restricted-Shell-Escape.pdf">Adding-Fonts-and -Restricted-ShellEscape</a>. See <a HREF="./gettinghelp.html">Getting Help</a> for more general help. Answers to frequently asked questions are given in <a HREF="./faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a>. <li> For problems with dvisvgm: <a HREF="./aboutdvisvgm.html">About dvisvgm</a>. <li> For problems running ConTeXt: <a HREF="./context.html">ConTeXt Initialization</a>. </ul> <hr> Learning about TeX and LaTeX <ul> <li>To start learning LaTeX or plain TeX: <a href="https://www.tug.org/begin.html">(La)TeX help resources</a> <li>For the history of TeX: <a href="https://tug.org/whatis.html">Just what is TeX?</a> <li> TeX can produce documents of great beauty and complexity. Many examples are provided in the TeX Live web pages, accessed by clicking the icon at the top right of each of our pages. Early in the development of MacTeX, samples were produced specifically for our site, and while these samples are now quite old, it is fun to glance at them: <a href="./tryingoutTeX.html">Trying Out TeX</a>. </ul> <hr> MacTeX for Developers <ul> <li>Notarization and Associated Issues: <a href="./notarization-problems.html">Notarization-for-Developers</a>. </ul> <hr> <table valign='bottom' align="left"> <tr><td valign='bottom'> Happy TeXing on macOS ! </td></tr></table> <table valign='bottom' align="right"> <tr><td valign='bottom'> <a href='./donate.html'> Donate</a>     </td></tr></table> </body></html>