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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-01-07 12:52:44 +0100
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-01-07 12:52:44 +0100
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- For PDF output, you'll also need to install LaTeX.
We recommend [MiKTeX](http://miktex.org/).
+ - If you'd prefer, you can extract the pandoc and pandoc-citeproc
+ executables from the MSI and copy them directly to any directory,
+ without running the installer. Here is an example showing how to
+ extract the executables from the pandoc-1.19.1 installer and copy
+ them to `C:\Utils\Console\`:
+
+ mkdir "%TEMP%\pandoc\"
+ start /wait msiexec.exe /a pandoc-1.19.1-windows.msi /qn targetdir="%TEMP%\pandoc\"
+ copy /y "%TEMP%\pandoc\pandoc.exe" C:\Utils\Console\
+ copy /y "%TEMP%\pandoc\pandoc-citeproc.exe" C:\Utils\Console\
+ rmdir /s /q "%TEMP%\pandoc\"
+
## Mac OS X
- There is a package installer at pandoc's [download page].
@@ -14,6 +26,16 @@
by downloading [this script][uninstaller]
and running it with `perl uninstall-pandoc.pl`.
+ - It is possible to extract the pandoc and pandoc-citeproc
+ executables from the osx pkg file, if you'd rather not run
+ the installer. To do this (for the version 1.19.1 package):
+
+ mkdir pandoc-extract
+ cd pandoc-extract
+ xar -x ../pandoc-1.19.1-osx.pkg
+ cat pandoc.pkg/Payload | gunzip -dc | cpio -i
+ # executables are now in ./usr/bin/, man pages in ./usr/share/man
+
- You can also install pandoc using
[homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.