David F. wrote in post #994133: > I have the same issues above, I've installed Homebrew. Now I cant get it > to do the sudo app-get part. I understand that Mac does not have this > functionality. What options do I have instead?
Explain this. 1. Did you really mean "apt-get" instead of "app-get." I have no idea what app-get is, never heard of it if it does exist. 2. What do you mean by "can't get it to do the sudo app-get part." What happens? Do you get errors? What are they? 3. What operating system are you using? The apt-get command only works for certain Linux distributions. Other platforms use different package managers with different commands. RedHat for example uses rpm (RedHat Package Manager) by default, instead of apt-get (Debian/Ubuntu). 4. If you happen to be on a Mac then there are several choices for these types of package managers. The Mac doesn't ship with any of them because the Mac has a native package installer system using the built-in Installer services provided by Mac OS X. These packages are called dpkg (Darwin Package, where Darwin is the low level UNIX OS of Mac OS X). Other package managers for OS X have been created by the open source community, which include Macports, Fink, Homebrew, etc. IMHO Homebrew is the only one worth using. I have never liked how intrusive the other solutions can be on my system. Homebrew is light weight and non-intrusive, not to mention full of awesomeness. But, that is a matter of opinion. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
