Simple way to install on OSX?

Submitted by martins on Fri, 2018-07-27 11:21

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Hi folks,

The instructions for installing on OSX that I've seen so far are all over my head - I know enough about Terminal to break stuff, so when I see instructions on GitHub I close the page and back away slowly.

What I did find though, is this: http://macappstore.org/moc/ - tells me to install HomeBrew and then run 'brew install moc'.

I just want to make sure I'm not following instructions that give someone evil a way to hack my Mac. With the install command, can I be safe knowing that it's the actual MOCP application that gets installed, and not some hacked version? I.e. does it pull in the code from the correct source?

Thanks!

Martin

Zhiming Wang

Sat, 2018-08-18 15:13

Hi, as a long time Mac user and a former Homebrew (the package manager) maintainer, I can vouch for the instructions at http://macappstore.org/moc/, though I find it shocking that they did not even bother to link to Homebrew's official website. The official website is here: https://brew.sh/, and I'd encourage you to at least skim through some docs first: https://docs.brew.sh/ (maybe start with the FAQ) before you install and use it. Working knowledge of the command line is highly recommended.