Installation mac mavericks os x

Installation

Download a python distribution which include wxPython

At the time for this post, (Dec 2013), the installation of wxPython2.9-osx-cocoa-py2.7 made hickups and crashes.
This is reported here and here.

The problem is based on the wxPython version and 32/64 bit issues.
It is therefore strongly recommended to install the 32 bit python package distribution.

If one installs the "epd" enthought python distribution, this will include a working wxPython.
SIgn-up with preferably a university email to get the Academic License, and you can then download for free https://www.enthought.com/repo/epd/installers/

Specifically download and install:
epd-7.3-2-macosx-i386.dmg

Special note about 64-bit Mac OSX

The macosx-x86_64 installer does not include wxPython, which a lot of ETS relies on. Even though ETS supports the use of PySide as a backend, things are much less stable under Qt. Therefore, if you want to use ETS, we recommned using the 32-bit EPD on Mac OSX.

Testing the Python installation

Before installing relax, it is best to be sure that the Python modules are functional by importing them:

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Oct 12 2012, 14:23:48)
[GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2

>>> import wx
>>> wx.__version__; wx.__file__
'...'

>>> import bmrblib
>>> bmrblib.__version__; bmrblib.__file__
'...'

>>> import minfx
>>> minfx.__version__; minfx.__file__
'...'

Install brew as 'linux' package manager

You can read about brew here.
In short, it is like a package manager for mac, where you will be able to get linux programs to mac.

 ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"