What are your "must-have" MacPorts? [closed]
Solution 1:
I just compile from source, since all of the important programs build easily on Mac OS X these days. Here's a great article on the advantages of building your own stuff vs. using package managers.
Having said that, here's my quick list:
- Mercurial
- Git
- GNU Privacy Guard 1.4.x
- ffmpeg
- MySQL Best directions I've seen for building 32 or 64-bit MySQL on Mac OS X: DIYMacServer
Solution 2:
This is my essential list, in the order that I install them.
- arping
- watch
- wireshark
- figlet
- git
- gnupg
- ipcalc
- lynx +ssl
- minicom
- mtr
- ncftp
- nmap
- pstree
- pwgen
- p0f
- ssldump
- stunnel
- tcpflow
- unrar
- w3m
- wget
Solution 3:
In no particular order:
- git - git
- signing-party - GnuPG key signing utils, pulls in GnuPG as well
- ntop - A Unix tool that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does.
- sslscan - sslscan queries SSL services, such as HTTPS, in order to determine the ciphers that are supported
- watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
- nmap - Network port scan to see what ports are open
- coreutils GNU coreutils. Includes gnu versions of basic unix commands, including "color ls" (gls)
- pstree - Process tree listing
- tcping - tcp based network connectivity checker (like ping but with TCP for when ICMP is blocked)
- wget - non-interactive network downloader. Supports http, https and ftp
- apg - Automated Password Generator - toolset for generating random passwords
Solution 4:
First thing I do is update to the latest bash version... then I usually grab some updated versions of utilities:
- grep
- sudo
- man
- info (although i had to go with the fink version for this, macports is bugged)
- gdiff
Then on to my development tools like subversion, git, vim, macvim, python3, etc. I heart MacPorts :P