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Development Tools Console Foundations Installing Software Introduction to Package Managers

Martin Bornman
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Martin Bornman
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Posted by Martin Bornman
Martin Bornman
Courses Plus Student 12,662 Points

Terminal

I am following along with my own terminal.In the section where we have to install git. My terminal sudo: apt-get: command not found Is there something wrong with my termina?I am on a macBook El Capitan OS

3 Answers

chrisverra
chrisverra
3,760 Points

Mac OS X doesn't have apt-get. There is a package manager called Homebrew that is used instead.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

install homebrew first, and you should be good to go.

shaunhoyes
shaunhoyes
17,972 Points
shaunhoyes
shaunhoyes
17,972 Points

I use Mac OSX also, so I'm using Homebrew as a package manager. I used brew update to update Homebrew.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

let us know how it goes.