scarMac

I received my new iMac yesterday right before I had to leave to teach a class. It is an impressive sight. I am now setting it up. The long running task I have is getting iTunes setup from my old library. I am copying the old iTunes onto my machine then I will combine it with another iTunes library. I hope that I will be able to retain all my old playlists and get the new songs. Then I will work on cleaning it up.

I have already installed Firefox. Next I want to install MacTex, Python, Sage, and the video capturing software which I think is Screenflow.

• MacTex 2.3 GB, package install
  
• Python, Going with default Python install. May upgrade later.
  

• Sage, unpack, drag Sage folder wherever (applications), and click on sage. Use notebook() and localhost:8000 to
  
• Xcode, from MacOSX DVD and install Xcode mpkg
• QT Installed
  
  • QT SDK, 1.46GB, installation problem?
  • The QT libraries worked so installed that. A new version should handle 10.6
  • Installing new version. 64-bit! 4.6 working well so far
    
• Python bindings
  
  • SIP (python configure.py; make; make install (sudo))
  • PyQT (same)
    
• QTScintilla, Eric IDE
  
  • Download QScintilla and install with qmake stuff from instruction (
    qmake -spec -macx-g++ qscintilla.pro
  • Eric IDE
  • Later will look into extra modules on the Eric IDE system
  • Failure: mportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so, 2): Symbol not found: _sipQtConnect
    Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so
    Expected in: flat namespace
    in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so
    An error in SIP
    
• Screenflow: video capture with direct publish to YouTube. Download package, install. Try it, pay for it.
  
• TuneUp (tuneupmedia) and Dupin (dougscripts) to first get song info then get rid of all duplicates. Doug's scripts also has some other cool scripts for iTunes. The whole process loading my library involved transferring from an old computer and then importing a whole library from another. Done.

Note: scarMac is so named as it came with a little crack/scratch in the lower left corner. It does not seem to be interfering with function, just form. Hence scar. Perfect for a Speakeasy computer.