Homebrew Cask!

It only takes 1 line in your shell to reach 2100 Casks maintained by 1000 contributors. brew cask install google-chrome Your software is just one command away from being ready and raring to go. Forget all about babysitting the install process step by step, from website to cleanup. ls /usr/local/Caskroom google-chrome

Homebrew Cask alternatives

  • Mac App Store

  • The Mac App Store is the best place to find apps for Mac. No more boxes, no more disks, no more time-consuming installation. Just like the App Store for iPhone and iPad, click once to download and install any app on your Mac.

    tags: application-hosting file-hosting mac-apps repo software-repository
  • Advanced Package Tool

  • Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.

    tags: command-line-interface debian package-management debian-package-system
  • MacPorts

  • The MacPorts Project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system.

    tags: software-repository software-updating x-server freebsd ports
  • MacUpdate Desktop

  • MacUpdate Desktop makes managing and updating your applications easy and automatic. It helps you organize your favorite applications and keep track of them when new versions become available. Download and install new updates. Find out whats new. Stay up to date like never before.

    tags: software-updating update-notifier
  • Cakebrew

  • Cakebrew is the most convenient way to use Homebrew for your daily tasks! It does for Homebrew what Synaptics does to Linux package managers. From the Cakebrew UI, you can:

    tags: graphical-user-interface homebrew package-management
  • RubyGems

  • RubyGems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. Instantly publish your gems and install them. Use the API to interact and find out more information about available gems.

    tags: ruby package-management
  • Fink

  • What is Fink?

    tags: gnome unix gnu kde distribution
  • YUM Package Manager

  • Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. It makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm. Yum has a plugin interface for adding simple features. Yum can also be used from other python programs via its module inteface.

    tags: package-management software-management package-installer
  • RPM Package Manager

  • The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating computer software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, and the like. There is also a library API, permitting advanced developers to manage such transactions from programming languages such as C or Python.

    tags: software-management package-manager package-installer
  • Rudix

  • Rudix is a package-based, user-friendly way to extend the Unix portion of Mac OS X with additional network utilities, computer languages, development libraries, text tools and everything else you missed from command line.

    tags: unix package-manager
  • MacLibre

  • MacLibre is an Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X. It's simple, intuitive with applications you need. It brings a new way of software installation on your Mac. It installs a pack of great free/open source apps and keeps them updated for you.

    tags: Discontinued software-installation package setup