Ever heard of Homebrew? It’s a package manager with a very unusual feature. It allows ordinary users to install packages without using sudo, and it’s available for both macOS and Linux. While the tool ...

They offer better security, stability, and portability. What isn't to like?

A package manager or package management system is a set of utilities that facilitate the process of installing, updating, and removing computer programs on an operating system. It is very prevalent ...

Rob Buckley suggests a Terminal command for using Mac OS X's built-in SSH capabilities to remotely install software packages, and also a tip for avoiding a restart for installers that would normally ...

The Mac has several third-party package managers for installing additional software. Here's how to use the Nix package manager with macOS. Nix is a package manager that provides container-based ...

When I first started using Linux in the late 90s, there was really only one way to install an application. You would download the app, unpack the archive, run the ...

I'm interested in installing some sort of package management tool on a <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org">Linux from scratch</a> install. Either RPM, YUM, or ...

When trying to install a package in Visual Studio Installer, we get an error stating that the operation has failed. Since it hinders our workflow, we need to find a ...