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My 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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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 And it'll prompt you to install the command line tools.
Step 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.
More info here: http://saveosx.org/
Step 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.
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. http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2013-10/0036.html
Did I miss something or does Chrome use the Keychain?
A great alternative to Homebrew is pkgin because of it's speed and the amount of packages available in pkgsrc. More info here: http://saveosx.org/
It's great. It really is. I never understood why it's not used by more people. Homebrew is simply awful.
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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.
BSD differs from Linux in some important ways. If one of those differences affect your works, than Mac OS X is useless, even if it is Unix (and Linux, some would say, isn't)
Please don't run scripts like this, unless you promise not to post about how your untested configuration is so unstable and has such bad battery life after an OS X update.