New UNIX tools for Mac OS X

[jamie marchant]

How easy would it be to update some of the command-line tools on older versions of Mac OS X? Can they be taken from Linux or FreeBSD?

 

[PowerPup]

Most people use package managers for Mac OS X such as Homebrew or Fink to accomplish this. For older versions of Mac OS X you'll probably want to look at an archived version of Fink.

 

[beachycove]

or macports

 

[jamie marchant]

Thanks that's useful.

 

[jamie marchant]

I am looking for Mac OS X.5 PowerPC stuff, Flink seems to work but the repositories seem to be done, oh well at least I got some new binaries.

 

[jruschme]

Go MacPorts, then... everything will build from scratch, but they do support Leopard PPC. (I think Tiger PPC is unsupported, but still works too.)

 

[jamie marchant]

Thanks I will check that out.

 

[markyb86]

MacPorts for 10.3 isn't on the website any longer, but it's still there (if you need it)
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/MacPorts-1.6.0/MacPorts-1.6.0-10.3-Panther.dmg

 

[beachycove]

Macports works well for Leopard/ ppc. There are regular updates and many, many current versions of tools like git, python etc. are there. Having said that, there are also major gaps (e.g., the latest pandoc).

 

[johnklos]

NetBSD's pkgsrc is actively updated and supports PowerPC. I use it on all my PowerPC Leopard systems. It works well, encapsulates everything cleanly and has its own system for starting and stopping daemons.

 

[IPalindromeI]

My friend maintains pkgsrc for OS X on Intel, if you want to use that.