Rudix

Welcome to Rudix, Comrade!

About Rudix

Rudix for power users is a world class collection of pre-compiled and ready to use Unix compatible software (packages) which are not available from a standard installation of Mac OS X (or Darwin) and is very popular among other Unixes environments like GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. For example, software like wget, ncftp, lynx and many more command line tools.

Rudix for system administrators and developers is a powerful and easy to customize mechanism to retrieve, compile and create native Mac OS X packages (.pkg files). Rudix is very similar in concept to BSD's ports system and is proud to keep this tradition of simplicity and elegance.

I'm A Power User. How Do I Install Rudix?

Before you can install and use any of those packages you must have to add two paths to your $PATH environment variable. You can do this locally (for one user) or globally (for everybody).

For one user usage add the following lines to your $HOME/.profile (or .bash_profile)

PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
export PATH

For system wide usage change your /etc/profile file to

PATH="/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin"
export PATH

now you are ready to install packages provided by Rudix.

I'm A System Administrator Or Developer. How Do I Install Rudix?

Note that DeveloperTools is required in order to use the port system because we need the GCC compiler kit and some libraries and tools which DeveloperTools provides in order to build any software.

For system administrators and developers interested in Rudix as a port system I recommend to use the CVS to retrieve Rudix, see the CVS repository in SourceForge. If you want to build ccache, just do:

$ CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/rudix
$ cvs login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net)
CVS password: press return
$ cvs -z3 co Rudix
U Rudix/COPYING.txt
U Rudix/README.txt
...
$ cd Rudix/Ports/ccache
$ make
$ sudo make pkg

This everything necessary to build and create a package of ccache. If you want to distribute this package to others, it's better to make a disk image of it doing:

$ make dmg

FAQ

Q. Why do you install packages in /usr/local?
A. Because it is the standard place for third party software.

Q. How do I uninstall a package?
A. Mac OS X does not provides any graphical uninstaller, but you can uninstall Rudix's packages by running sudo rudix -r package.pkg.

Q. I didn't like Rudix. Is there any alternative?
A. Yes, take a look at DarwinPorts, Fink or pkgsrc.

Q. What are the advantages of Rudix against the others?
A. Simplicity. All packages are self-contained and installable via disk image and you don't need to use any other package management tool to install those softwares.

Q. What does Rudix means? Is it a combination of your name and Unix or what?
A. Rudix stands for "Unix for Commies" but in fact I'm not communist ;) it's a joke.

Rudix is copyrighted by Rudá Moura and is licensed under GPL. The Rudix logo is provided by Elvis Pfützenreuter. Thank you right winger comrade! Each software provided here is covered under appropriate license and ownership. Basically they will be covered under a free software license too.