Please - if you are a Mac user, let me know what has worked and what hasn't so I can
provide better support for next year's students. My own Mac - and the department's Macs - are
so "polluted" with previous installations that it is almost impossible to create a good test
machine.
One way to get CVS on your Mac that is known to have worked for at least some student:
- install the Homebrew package manager (https://brew.sh) - just
follow the instructions in the link
- after Homebrew has finished installing, run the command "brew install cvs"
- done - hopefully ;-)
An alternative way is that after you have downloaded
this zip-file,
you should carry out the following steps:
- make a CVS folder in your Applications folder (make sure that you have write permission)
- copy the zip-file to the CVS folder
- unzip the file with "Archive Utility" (in Finder)
- remove the zip-file
- rename the folder to "usr_4.2"
- go to your home folder (~/)
- add this line "alias cvs='/Applications/CVS/usr_4.2/bin/cvs'" to your .bash_profile file
(if it doesn't exist you have to create it)
Updated October 4, 2022