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Installing programs with the shell in OS X

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Luckily on OS X most programs come with a nice installer program that allows you to click enter 3 or 4 times and magically the program is installed. Once and a while you may need to install and configure the script thru OS X’s Unix Shell via the Terminal. When ever I have to do this a small chill goes down my back. Most of the time it ends up being fairly straight forward but I am always away of the dangers of using the terminal. One wrong command can do a whole lot of damage. Typical steps for installing with the terminal are:

OS X Terminal

1 - Open a Terminal window (Applications -> Utilities - > Terminal)

Navigate to the folder of the script you are trying to install.

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