FAQ

What does Rudix mean?

Rudix is the mixing of Rudá and Unix and it doesn't mean anything special besides the name of the author.

What are the advantages of Rudix against the others?

In one word: simplicity. All programs are pre-compiled and self-contained (no external dependencies) and installable as Mac OS X packages.

Why does Rudix install packages under /usr/local?

Why invent another path? /usr/local is the standard place for all third party software in every Unix on planet Earth.

Why do I need to keep entering root password to install in /usr/local?

The path /usr/local is owned by the user root and group wheel and even administrators can't write into this kind of permission without entering the password for root -- by the way, Administrators are in the special group admin.

Why do I avoid to type the root password when I use rudix commands?

Find information about using sudo (and visudo) without typing password.

%admin  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

How do I Bootstrap Rudix in command line?

curl -O http://rudix.googlecode.com/hg/Ports/rudix/rudix.py
sudo python rudix.py install rudix

You will be probably asked for administrator password.

How do I install/uninstall a package?

See Usage.

How do I remove Rudix? I mean, all packages at once

sudo rudix -R

I dislike Rudix. Is there any alternative?

We recommend Homebrew if you need more packages than we have or just dislike Rudix.

There are other package systems for Mac OS X if you want also:

Why PowerPC is not supported?

I (the Author) no longer own an iBook, so it's not possible to compile and test for PowerPC.

Comment by vivacar...@gmail.com, Sep 25, 2010

why isn't Rudix doing dependency resolution on its own?

Comment by project member santagada, Feb 17, 2011

there is no dependencies in rudix.

Comment by MNegre...@gmail.com, May 21, 2011

You'd like to address some of those typos =]

What does rudix mean? (not means) Why does rudix ... (instead of do)

homebrew instead of homebew

otherwise, i have a question: Do i need to download 'rudix 2010' for the packages to work?

Comment by project member ruda.moura, Jun 5, 2011

MNegre, you don't need to install “Rudix 2010”, the better approach is to bootstrap Rudix with the command provided in the FAQ or just download the packages you like it. Thank you for fixing the typos :)

Comment by rothko....@gmail.com, Dec 3, 2011

why do i need to keep entering root password to install in /usr/local?

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