The easiest way to install a number of Unix style applications and open source software onto macOS Catalina, Mojave and earlier Sierra OS versions is via a package manager, unfortunately, macOS Catalina doesn’t come with one, but fortunately, some good folks care, they come in the form of Homebrew. The install of Homebrew also works on …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X El Capitan 10.11, Package Manager for Unix Apps
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto Mac OS X is via a package manager, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and Fink …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X Yosemite 10.10, Package Manager for Unix Apps
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto Mac OS X is via a package manager, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and Fink …
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Set up AMP Stack for Local Development in OSX 10.9 Mavericks with Homebrew
OSX ships with Apache and PHP but not MySQL, you can use HomeBrew to install the other parts of the AMP Stack quickly including MySQL, phpMyAdmin and mcrypt. What you need to get started as a base is Xcode and Command Line Tools. This guide is intended for those with more experience with the command …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X Mavericks 10.9, Package Manager for Unix Apps
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto OS X is via a package manager or repository, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and …
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Installing Homebrew on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8, Package Manager for Unix Tools
The easiest way to install various Unix tools and open source software onto OS X is via a package manager or repository, unfortunately OS X doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and …
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How to Write to Windows NTFS USB Disk Drives on macOS Mojave and Sierra
By default, you can’t write to Windows NTFS USB drives and hard disks on macOS as they appear as read-only on the Desktop. You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click apps that can …
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Install and Configure wget on macOS and fix SSL GNUTLS error
macOS Mojave, Sierra, and earlier versions come with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact, ‘curl‘ can probably get you by just fine, check man curl at the command line to see its usage. Otherwise, let’s look at getting ‘wget‘… …
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