About Rudix
Rudix features a world class collection of pre-compiled and ready to use Unix compatible software which are not available from a fresh installation of Mac OS X but are popular among other Unix environments. Here you can find utilities, programming languages, libraries and tools delivered as standard Mac OS X packages.
Rudix provides for system administrators and developers a powerful and easy to customize port system where you can retrieve, compile and build native Mac OS X software for public distribution (both .pkg and .dmg). Rudix is proud to keep this tradition of using Unix port systems.
If you think Rudix is really cool, you can help with money to keep improving this project.
Public Releases
Rudix 2009 “Chimera”
Download Rudix 2009 244 MB (disk image). Installation requires 681 MB free disk space.
Rudix release 2009 is for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), older releases of Mac OS X are no longer supported. Due the simplification of PackageMaker in Leopard, we are not providing a way to install with graphical user interface all packages in one step (we don't provide a metapackage). Things can change in the future but now you may only install one by one packages.
What's new
- Solid build on Leopard.
- Featuring new packages: cscope 15.7, figlet 2.2.2, httptunnel 3.3, libmaa 1.1.1, libzip 0.9.
- Updated current base of packages to the newest version: bzr 1.12, django 1.0.2, epic5, ffmpeg 0.5, lighttpd 1.4.22, mercurial 1.2, mutt 1.5.19, p7zip 4.65, python 3.0.1, readline 6.0, rsync 3.0.5, varnish 2.0.3 and more.
Many efforts have been done to bring Universal Binary support to all packages, but there's still a few packages not available to Power PC. We're currently targeting Universal Binary in 32 bit world.
Release date is March 29, 2009.
Installing all packages
After download and mount the disk image, open a Terminal and type the lines bellow to install the packages:
$ sudo su - type your password # for x in /Volumes/Rudix-2009/Packages/*.pkg ; do installer -pkg $x -target / ; done # exit
Note that $ and # are symbols for user and admin shells.
Rudix 2008r3
Download Rudix 2008r3 226 MB (Disk Image).
A landmark release of Rudix targeting build on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). Think of Rudix 2008r3 as Rudix 2009 prelease version. It's honestly speaking not much tested as the previous release of Rudix, but it works great.
Release date is December 15, 2008.
Rudix 2008r2
Download Rudix 2008r2 171.6 MB (Disk Image). Full installation requires 530 MB free disk space.
The packages were compiled and it's well tested on Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). Although some birds told us it runs on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and possibly on Panther too (Mac OS X 10.3) your mileage may vary. Feedbacks are very welcome!
Release date is September 14, 2008.
Rudix 2008, Rudix 2007 and Older
See the old homepage for information about previous releases of Rudix.
Packages
Rudix is graciously available as standalone packages compiled as Universal Binary which make it possible to run on Intel and PowerPC Macintoshes. It's important to notice that Rudix *never* overwrites your Mac OS X binaries, we only try to extend the features.
The packages are installed under /usr/local tree and follows as much as possible the hierarchy of /usr. You can find the binaries in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin, libraries in /usr/local/lib, documentation in /usr/local/share/doc and so on.
Mac OS X already provides /usr/local/bin in your PATH environment, so you don't need to customize it, but /usr/local/sbin is *not* in PATH. If you like to customize, open a Terminal and type:
$ sudo su - type your password # echo "/usr/local/sbin" > /etc/paths.d/local # exit
Logout from your current session, login again and open a Terminal to test the customization.
$ echo $PATH /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/sbin
Packages ordered by name
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