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Further Explorations

This chapter has covered quite a bit about installing software on your Mac. For the most part, installing software is much harder to explain than it is to actually do. However, if you’d like some more information on getting Mac OS X and applications onto your machine, take a look at the Getting Started manual that was included in the Mac OS X retail box.

You might also want to take a look at the manpages for the following commands:

make
softwareupdate
tar

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