Heba, download BasicTeX from the MacTex site. And then use tlmgr from the command line to install missing packages individually. Before an update it is trivial to save the list of installed packages so that one can re-install them afterwards.
I bought me a 32Gig 4TB MacBoc 13" Pro (BtO) the other day and a 16Gig 2TB 12" Air for travel. If you can wait a year of two I would wait a year or two :-)-O and then get the biggest M1 13 inch you can then afford (BtO). greetings, el On 2021-01-04 03:34 , heba said wrote: > Thanks download 4 G then installation around 7 so it is very hard to > download. Any alternative? If I need to buy a new Mac/ laptop for > programming, what will be the best ? > > Thanks and regards > /Heba Hussein (/何芭 侯赛因) BDS, MDSc, PhD, NBDE [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users