{The Mac\TeX\ install package} {Richard Koch} {Mac\TeX\ installs everything needed to run \TeX\ on a Macintosh with a single button click. I'll discuss the history of this package\Dash Wendy's conspiratorial lunch and Jonathan Kew's all night coding session \Dash modifications over the years, and important changes in the 2012 version. I'll discuss the importance of installing an unmodified, vanilla version of \TeX\ Live, explain how we add extra pieces so everything is automatically configured and ready to go, and end with possible future changes. The talk may contain completely unmotivated and irrelevant additional comments.}