I would also highly suggest installing curl via homebrew. The version that ships with OSX 10.9 has some broken features that might bite you.
Hacker's Guide to Setting Up Your Mac
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#12Step 1. Install linux
I get the joke, and it was the first thing that popped in my head too. But in all seriousness, OS X is Unix as well, and can do pretty much any Unix based task that GNU/Linux can. Sometimes the best tool for the job is the one you already own.
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#13My stumbling block is always that I start with macports, which requires Xcode, which requires logging into apple, app store, long download, long install ...
Do I understand that brew does not require xcode and I can jump straight from a new machine to `brew install git` (for instance) ?
If so, why does anyone use macports over brew ?
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#14I'm surprised oh-my-zsh wasn't mentioned.
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#15My stumbling block is always that I start with macports, which requires Xcode, which requires logging into apple, app store, long download, long install ... Do I understand that brew does not require xcode and I can jump straight from a new machine to `brew install git` (for instance) ? If so, why does anyone use macports over brew ?
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#16i personally think Boxen is the easiest way to setup a brand new machine. it can also easily be distributed and updated
the only downside is that it requires Xcode + command line tools.
https://boxen.github.com/
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#17My stumbling block is always that I start with macports, which requires Xcode, which requires logging into apple, app store, long download, long install ... Do I understand that brew does not require xcode and I can jump straight from a new machine to `brew install git` (for instance) ? If so, why does anyone use macports over brew ?
You can download the command line tools directly, you may need to be a registered Apple dev first though
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#18My stumbling block is always that I start with macports, which requires Xcode, which requires logging into apple, app store, long download, long install ... Do I understand that brew does not require xcode and I can jump straight from a new machine to `brew install git` (for instance) ? If so, why does anyone use macports over brew ?
Homebrew also requires at least the OS X Command-line developer tools, which previously were only included with XCode.
I suspect macports might also be able to cope with just these tools? Or does it still have X11 ports?
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#19I would also highly suggest installing curl via homebrew. The version that ships with OSX 10.9 has some broken features that might bite you. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2013-10/0036.html
Did I miss something or does Chrome use the Keychain?
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#20My stumbling block is always that I start with macports, which requires Xcode, which requires logging into apple, app store, long download, long install ... Do I understand that brew does not require xcode and I can jump straight from a new machine to `brew install git` (for instance) ? If so, why does anyone use macports over brew ?
You can download the command line tools directly, you may need to be a registered Apple dev first though
You don't, just run
xcode-select --install