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		iaskwhy on Aug 8, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Return of the Mac (2005) Oh, I see, so you cannot use yum on OSX? I never realised it (or its packages) wouldn't be compatible.

evilduck on Aug 8, 2011 [–]

No, Yum isn't available or compatible, it's coupled to Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS linux distributions like Apt is coupled to Debian/Ubuntu/Mint distributions.

Homebrew/MacPorts/Fink are nearly the same thing, they just don't come installed by default on OSX.

iaskwhy on Aug 8, 2011 | [–]

Got it! Thank you!

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