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notes when trying to display xps files with evince
(however mupdf has less bugs and is supported by homebrew as well)

• brew install evince does not support xps file format (xps option disabled at compile time)
  (check PATH variable, put /usr/local/bin as first entry if homebrew and macports are installed and errors like Python.h not found occur even if python has been freshly installed by homebrew)
• an example for own brew formulas can be found here
• copy /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/evince.rb to
  /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-x11/
• edit /usr/local/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-x11/evince.rb:
  uncomment the lines from bottle do to end using  # to disable prebuilt binaries
  add “–enable-xps”, to configure arguments
  and add line depends_on “libgxps”
• run brew search evince which should find homebrew/x11/evince
• run brew install homebrew/x11/evince

Preparing a NAS for backup with rsync I wanted to copy initial data with nfs because of higher transfer speed.

The NAS nfs export mounts fine on a linux box but not from osx 10.5.8. Some search revealed that

• /etc/hosts on the NAS should have an entry for the osx machine [1]
  (e.g. 1.2.3.9 my_osx_box)
• instead of mount 1.2.3.4:/share /mnt use mount_nfs -P 1.2.3.4:/share /mnt [2]
  (or add insecure to /etc/exports on the NAS)