Package management on Mac OS X

Question

Can anyone recommend a package management tool like apt-get or yum for Mac OS X? I've seen that Fink has ported apt-get to Mac OS X, is this a good way to go, or are there other/better options out there?

Solution 1

There are three more well known package management applications for Mac OS X:

• Fink that you mentioned.
• MacPorts which is hosted with Apple's Open Source Projects (eg. CalendarServer) and tends to have the largest and most up to date collection of packages.
• Homebrew which is relatively recent and has a much smaller set of packages.

Solution 2

not exactly "package management" in the same sense as *NIX package management, but AppFresh has made my life much much easier. I also use MacPorts for adding *NIX tools.

Solution 3

Try mac ports it has a great repository of applications ready to go for your mac.

Comments

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I am new to OSX as well. What's the newest status updates on all these package management tools?