<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <br> <div id="bloop_sign_1496329781737606912" class="bloop_sign"></div> <br><p class="airmail_on">On June 1, 2017 at 09:10:29, Rick Troth (<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net">rmt@casita.net</a>) wrote:</p> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div></div><div><div class="moz-cite-prefix">friends --<br><br>I've been using a scheme now called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.casita.net/chicory/">Chicory</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>since ... a long time ago. (Years before it even had a name.) Would love to present it at a COLUG meeting and maybe get others to join in the party.<br><br>Chicory comes to mind because we acquired an Airbook for my wife and I have naturally<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>begun tinkering</u>. One result of tinkering is that I have added "<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Darwin-x86_64</font>" to a growing body of ready-to-run packages. There are more than a dozen other platforms (e.g.,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Linux-i386</font>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Linux-s390</font>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">FreeBSD-amd64</font>). The packages are things like GnuPG, which I sometimes get from distro/vendor but usually build from source "just because". (Not as if I have time to actually vet the source each release, but re-compile allows for that and takes control up a notch in any case.)<br><br>Does anyone use "brew" or "homebrew"? It's a popular Mac-centric scheme that seems to be a little like Chicory (but more formal and has an actual following). My friend and mentor Glenn, who has been a Mac enthusiast for probably 15 years, described Brew to me in response to my comments about Chicory. There is a LinuxBrew project with a much smaller following than Mac Homebrew. The concept looks great, but some of the requirements put me off a bit.</div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>Yeah, I use brew, and love it. There's a ton of stuff available, sometimes even stuff I wouldn't expect - but I just 'brew install random-thing' and it often works. Most of the time it is painless, and some packages come with hints following the install - how to set up your shell environment, or how to make it so that (ie redis) starts on boot.</p><p>The most oft cited alternative to brew is MacPorts. I mostly switched over to brew because that's what my client developers were using. I've never come across Chicory.</p><p>Brew and MacPorts are sort of supposed to mirror the idea of apt/yum on macOS - access to a remote repository of packages through a single interface.</p><p>Just for fun, try </p><p>$ brew install youtube-dl</p><p>$ youtube-dl <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N99ODGN2m-c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N99ODGN2m-c</a></p><p><br></p></body></html>