Installation on macOS

This guide covers the following topics:

Note

This guide relies heavily on command-line tools. It assumes you are the least familiar with the macOS Terminal application.

Installing Dependencies

Install those packages or make sure you have them in your system.

Simply check out the Blender Manual’s repository using:

cd ~
svn checkout https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-manual/trunk/blender_docs

The repository will now be downloaded which may take a few minutes depending on your internet connection.

Open a Terminal window.
Enter the blender_docs folder which was just added by the SVN checkout:
```
cd ~/blender_docs
```
Inside that folder is a file called requirements.txt which contains a list of all the dependencies we need. To install these dependencies, we can use the pip command:
```
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
```

Note

Every now and then you may want to make sure your dependencies are up to date using:

sudo pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade