Hello Christine,

I can't really imagine why the homebrew formula should be gone (according to http://braumeister.org/formula/basex there are several versions available), but I am not a mac user myself, so I can't check.

However, the simplest way imho for all operating systems to start BaseX is to download the zip distribution at http://basex.org/products/download/all-downloads/ and to simply start bin/basexgui (or in case of windows bin/basexgui.bat) - This should be all it takes to start BaseX! No installation or setup neccessary, you should be good to go.

Cheers Dirk

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Schwartz, Christine < christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu> wrote:

Hi,

I’m new to BaseX and currently preparing a training session teaching XQuery and using BaseX as the programming environment.

I’m setting up step-by-step instructions for the attendees and have run into trouble with the Mac installation using Homebrew and BaseX. The Homebrew formula that was available yesterday appears to be gone.

Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple.

Thanks,

Chris

Christine Schwartz

Metadata Librarian and XML Database Administrator

Princeton Theological Seminary Library

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Schwartz, Christine christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu wrote:

Please advise as to how to simply install BaseX on a Mac, as the session is for non-programmers and I want to keep the instructions simple.

If you just want your users to use the (BaseX)GUI on the Mac then you could give BaseX.app [1] a try.

[1] http://files.basex.org/releases/BaseX.app.tar.bz2