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Homebrew formulae to build Zathura on Mac OS X

Zathura

Homebrew formulae to install zathura and plugins on Mac OS X

Installation steps

Tap the repository

brew tap zegervdv/zathura

Install zathura

brew install zathura

Install and link one of the two plugins

For poppler:

$ brew install zathura-pdf-poppler
$ mkdir -p $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura
$ ln -s $(brew --prefix zathura-pdf-poppler)/libpdf-poppler.dylib $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura/libpdf-poppler.dylib

For mupdf:

$ brew install zathura-pdf-mupdf
$ mkdir -p $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura
$ ln -s $(brew --prefix zathura-pdf-mupdf)/libpdf-mupdf.dylib $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.dylib

OSX_native_integration

The OSX native integration (dock, window manager) has been added to the develop branch of zathura. You can install it by

# unlink installed zathura and girara
brew unlink girara
brew unlink zathura

# install HEAD
brew install girara --HEAD
brew install zathura --HEAD
mkdir -p $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura
ln -s $(brew --prefix zathura-pdf-poppler)/libpdf-poppler.dylib $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura/libpdf-poppler.dylib

Copying to clipboard

Add the following to your ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc:

set selection-clipboard clipboard

Thanks to geigi (see #5)

Known Issues

Currently plugins are installed in the zathura folder, which means that uninstalling a plugin does not work.