Install Zathura on macOS 10.10.2

Solution 1:

Since this question and answer is about 6 years old, here's a current method for Big Sur as of writing (expanding on my edit of this answer on Ask Different).

I originally tried to compile it using the suggested method in the documentation which is this MacPorts port. Although it compiles, it gives the error Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display when running. There are fixes for other ports of programs with the same error but instead, I found a Homebrew tap which installs it without issues.

To install:

brew tap zegervdv/zathura
brew install zathura
brew install zathura-pdf-mupdf
mkdir -p $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura
ln -s $(brew --prefix zathura-pdf-mupdf)/libpdf-mupdf.dylib $(brew --prefix zathura)/lib/zathura/libpdf-mupdf.dylib

There is work to integrate the program better into macOS but it's still in development - see here.