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Apple's Macintosh operating system (OSX) is based on Linux (FreeBSD to be precise). Out of the box, however, macs lack some of the basic tools to compile software and a proper "package manager" (like synapic in Debian). | |||
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http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/ | http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/ | ||
=== fink === | |||
http://www.finkproject.org/ | |||
=== macports === | === macports === | ||
http://www.macports.org/ | http://www.macports.org/ | ||
Latest revision as of 11:57, 13 May 2013
Apple's Macintosh operating system (OSX) is based on Linux (FreeBSD to be precise). Out of the box, however, macs lack some of the basic tools to compile software and a proper "package manager" (like synapic in Debian).
Installing OSX command line tools
https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/
Package Manager
homebrew
http://mxcl.github.io/homebrew/