Rudix is a collection of Unix software delivered in packages for OS X Lion (plus Snow Leopard compatibility). “The hassle-free way to get Unix programs on Mac OS X”.
Rudix 2011 is made for OSX Lion (plus compatibility packages for Snow Leopard) and use the built-in Mac package system. All packages are Universal Binaries (Intel 32-bit & 64-bit), unfortunately PowerPC is no longer supported.
Every package is self-contained and has everything it needs to work. Rudix tries its best not to add extra dependencies to anything but the native Mac OS X libraries. For the end user this translates as: install and play.
To get a new software on your machine you should not need to wait a long time/have Xcode installed/drain your battery, in Rudix we do that for you. All the packages are already compiled, no need to waste precious battery time to get updated.
Rudix has a number of libraries and tools aimed at developers, that are hard to compile. For example we have the Boost C++ libraries and glib ready to use.
Rudix tries to have all the packages you are really going to need on Mac OS X. If it doesn't have the package you need, check our guide to see if you can get them somewhere else or ask for it in our request page.
You can choose to install between the website or command line to find new packages and whatever you choose the packages will work just the same.
Bootstrapping Rudix with help of command line is the faster way to install Rudix, just open a Terminal.app and type:
curl -O http://rudix.googlecode.com/hg/Ports/rudix/rudix.py sudo python rudix.py install rudix
or compressed in one-line:
curl http://rudix.googlecode.com/hg/Ports/rudix/rudix.py | sudo python - install rudix
You will be probably asked for administrator password.
If you prefer you can download the package manager available in Featured section of project's site (look at the left-side of the page). Double-click in the package to start the installation and follow the instructions.
Now you can use Rudix package manager to install other packages. For each program you want just do:
sudo rudix install wget sudo rudix install lynx sudo rudix install ncftp sudo rudix install coreutils sudo rudix remove lynx rudix search memcached