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# Status Fink currently supports macOS 10.12 (Sierra, OS X 10.11 (El Capitan, OS X 10.10 (Yosemite, OS X 10.9 (Mavericks, and continues to run on older versions of OS X, although official updates are no longer available for the older versions. Installation instructions can be found on our source release page download/srcdist.php. Xcode must be installed before Fink. **10.12 Support:** 10.12 users must install Xcode version 8.0 or later (via a free download from the AppStore, or must at least install the Command Line Tools for Xcode 6.0 for Sierra (installable via _xcode-select install_, or downloadable from Apple http://developer.apple.com.
If you need X11 you should install Xquartz-2.7.7 or later from macosforge.org http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/.
**10.11 Support:** 10.1

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