CVS lab - Mac OS X installation:

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)