Clarify macos install in INSTALL.md.

Make the binary package installer the recommended method, and
note that homebrew installs from source and takes a lot of
disk space.

Closes #4661.
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John MacFarlane 2018-05-19 16:53:18 -07:00
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## macOS
- You can install pandoc using
[homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
- There is a package installer at pandoc's [download page].
If you later want to uninstall the package, you can do so
by downloading [this script][uninstaller]
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unzip the file and move the binaries and man pages to
whatever directory you like.
- Alternatively, you can install pandoc using
[homebrew](http://brew.sh): `brew install pandoc`.
Note: This method installs pandoc from source, so it
will take a long time and a lot of disk space for the
ghc compiler and dependent Haskell libraries.
- For PDF output, you'll also need LaTeX. Because a full [MacTeX]
installation takes more than a gigabyte of disk space, we recommend
installing [BasicTeX](http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html)