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Posted by: jamie marchant on 2015-02-12 10:28:29
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?
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Posted by: PowerPup on 2015-02-12 15:04:41
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 😉 For older versions of Mac OS X you'll probably want to look at an archived version of Fink.
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Posted by: beachycove on 2015-02-12 15:19:52
or macports
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Posted by: jamie marchant on 2015-02-12 16:52:13
Thanks that's useful.
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Posted by: jamie marchant on 2015-02-13 09:35:48
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.
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Posted by: jruschme on 2015-02-13 10:44:14
Go MacPorts, then... everything will build from scratch, but they do support Leopard PPC. (I think Tiger PPC is unsupported, but still works too.)
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Posted by: jamie marchant on 2015-02-13 10:49:41
Thanks I will check that out.
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Posted by: markyb86 on 2015-02-13 17:13:29
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
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Posted by: beachycove on 2015-02-13 19:46:32
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).
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Posted by: johnklos on 2015-02-14 17:35:17
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.
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Posted by: IPalindromeI on 2015-02-14 18:13:51
My friend maintains pkgsrc for OS X on Intel, if you want to use that.
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