# Fresh install (MacOS 11) **URL:** \ **Category:** Q&A\ **Created:** [December 15, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128 "2020-12-15T00:41:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PlanetGus](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/planetgus/32/303_2.png) [@PlanetGus](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/PlanetGus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/1 "2020-12-15T00:41:11Z")
Hi there, I finally installed a brand new clean version of Big Sur on my laptop, and now comes the time to re-install softwares. Three of them gave me a headache last time : GMT, LaTeX… and Ghostscript because of the shared libraries and the lack of transparency support (-dSAFER if I remember correctly? I know the topic appears here two or three times a year…) So here’s my question to more Unix-aware people : How to install GS, GMT and LaTeX together as cleanly as possible? From the bundles ? With Brew ? Compile it from the repo ? Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![seisman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/seisman/32/4_2.png) [@seisman](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/seisman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/2 "2020-12-15T03:32:54Z")
> How to install GS, GMT and LaTeX together as cleanly as possible? > From the bundles ? With Brew ? Compile it from the repo ? If you’re already a Homebrew user, using homebrew is the easiest way. ---
**Author:** ![PlanetGus](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/planetgus/32/303_2.png) [@PlanetGus](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/PlanetGus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/3 "2020-12-15T03:38:38Z")
But is it the cleanest? Because brew doesn’t propose latex nor old version of gs (if I’m not mistaken) ---
**Author:** ![seisman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/seisman/32/4_2.png) [@seisman](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/seisman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/4 "2020-12-15T03:45:32Z")
Homebrew now provides Ghostscript 9.53.3 ([https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ghostscript](https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ghostscript)), which no longer has the transparency bug. As for latex, Homebrew provides more options: - basictex ([https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/basictex](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/basictex)): a small and compact TeX distribution - mactex ([https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mactex](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mactex)): the large and full TeX distribution - mactex-no-gui ([https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mactex-no-gui](https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/mactex-no-gui)): similar to mactex, but without gui ---
**Author:** ![seisman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/seisman/32/4_2.png) [@seisman](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/seisman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/5 "2020-12-15T03:54:31Z")
macOS bundle may be the “cleanest” way to install GMT, but it also means you can only use the GMT stable releases, and can’t use the GMT master branch. ---
**Author:** ![PlanetGus](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/planetgus/32/303_2.png) [@PlanetGus](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/PlanetGus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/6 "2020-12-15T04:01:02Z")
> [@seisman](#): > > can’t use the GMT master branch Hum… fair… I need to run a specific flag or is it just through brew update? Thanks for the update on homebrew, I indeed was mistaken 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![seisman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/seisman/32/4_2.png) [@seisman](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/seisman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/7 "2020-12-15T04:10:36Z")
You can install the GMT master branch using ```auto brew install gmt --HEAD ``` A few weeks later, if you want to update to the latest master branch, you need to run ```auto brew reinstall gmt ``` to re-compile and re-install GMT. The compilation usually takes no more than 5 minutes for me. ---
**Author:** ![PlanetGus](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex047/user_avatar/forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/planetgus/32/303_2.png) [@PlanetGus](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/u/PlanetGus)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.generic-mapping-tools.org/t/fresh-install-macos-11/1128/8 "2020-12-15T04:29:32Z")
👍 I’ll try that tomorrow:)