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Download the disk image and open with a double click. Now look up for Rudix file which is colored in red and double click on it to begin the installation process.
Open a Terminal application and change $PATH environment variable to search files on /usr/local/. For system-wide usage just setup /etc/profile as it follows:
PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin" export PATH
For personal usage you will have to create or change the $HOME/.profile file to:
PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin" export PATH
Q. What does Rudix means?
A. Rudix is the mixing of Ruda and Unix.
Q. What are the advantages of Rudix against the others?
A. In one word: simplicity. All packages are self-contained and installable via disk image as whatever software on Mac OS X should be.
Q. Why do Rudix install packages under /usr/local?
A. Because it is the standard place for third party software in every Unix on earth.
Q. How do I uninstall a package?
A. Mac OS X does not provides any graphical uninstaller for .pkg packages but you can uninstall Rudix's packages (for example ccache.pkg) by running
$ sudo rudix -r ccache.pkg
Q. I've try to run my favorite program but the only thing I get is dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/...
A. It means that you forgot to install some library. Please, see section libraries in download page and install the apropriate library.
Q. I dislike Rudix. Is there any alternative?
A. Really? Why don't you send me a mail and tell me what you don't like and help me to improve my system and even solve your problem.
Well, there are very good alternatives to Rudix, like MacPorts and Fink.
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