wscott
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I noticed several threads in which people want certain command line tools so I thought I would mention my solution.
I installed Linuxbrew, a version of Homebrew for MacOS that builds Linux tools. This can be done entirely within my user account and home directory without needing root. Yet it lets you quickly install most command line tools you might need.
Steps
1) mkdir $HOME/linuxbrew
2) sudo ln -s $HOME/linuxbrew /home/linuxbrew. # OK, I needed root here
3) install according to instructions
You want that /home/linuxbrew symlink because it allows you to use the pre-compiled binary snapshots so installs are fast.
I installed Linuxbrew, a version of Homebrew for MacOS that builds Linux tools. This can be done entirely within my user account and home directory without needing root. Yet it lets you quickly install most command line tools you might need.
Steps
1) mkdir $HOME/linuxbrew
2) sudo ln -s $HOME/linuxbrew /home/linuxbrew. # OK, I needed root here
3) install according to instructions
You want that /home/linuxbrew symlink because it allows you to use the pre-compiled binary snapshots so installs are fast.
