This is a folder on your hard disk where your projects and files that are edited in Eclipse are stored. When Eclipse is started for the first time, it will ask you for a “workspace location”. Of course, you have to change the path to your custom location. If you are running Mountain Lion and get a system message that “Eclipse can not be executed because the developer is not verified”, unlock the App by starting a Terminal window and typing the following command: xattr -d /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app Unpack the file and execute Eclipse.app inside the unpacked folder. Download Eclipse (Version for Java Developers) here for your appropriate processor architecture. Installing EclipseĮclipse is a very powerful software platform, allowing to install plugins in order to assemble a flexible and powerful IDE. Just follow the link, download the (very large!) installation bundle and execute it. The recommended LaTeX distribution to install on OS X is MacTex.
These components form a very powerful IDE for writing documents with LaTeX. In this blog post I will explain how to install a complete LaTeX environment on your mac based on MacTex, Eclipse and TeXlipse. LaTeX is an essential typesetting language for scientific papers and presentations.
