Will linux apps run on mac

Run Linux programs on OS X 10.5?

There are a few different options. I would recommend MacPorts. There’s also Fink, pkgsrc, homebrew.

What program are you after in specific? It is probably available from Fink.

Mac OS X is not binary compatible with Linux binaries, but most Linux software is opensource and written to be fairly cross-platform so their are several projects to port common packages to Mac.

VMWare Fusion is pretty cheap if you are a student, I think paid about 40.00 or so. It will also let your run Leopard server as well . . . The Sun offering, Virtual Box, is free for students, but I’ve had problems with it doing filter driver development (I Do all my PC development my iMAC via VMware fusion). If you are doing non-driver development, then I’d go with virtual box . . .

You can’t run native Linux apps on OS X; however, you can usually recompile them to run on Mac without too many issues. You’ll need to have X11.app installed (this used to not get installed, but may be with 10.6).

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Emulating Linux binaries under Mac OS X

How do I run Linux binaries under Mac OS X? Googling around I found a couple of emulators but none for running Linux binaries on a Mac. There are quite a few posts about running Mac OS X on Linux and that kind of stuff — but that’s the opposite of what I want to do. Update: Thanks for all the answers! I am fully aware of MacPorts and Fink or any of the other things; and no, I do not want any of these utilities, and I do not want any of the package managers, I prefer to compile things myself. I also have Parallels and could set up virtual machines and all that jazz. The only thing I want to do is to find a way to run a binary that I do not have the source code for and has been compiled for Linux, but I do not want to run it under Linux but under Mac OS X. Therefore my question about emulators.

If your just looking to run software from the *nix/POSIX world it will probably compile provided it doesn’t depend on OS specific libraries. Fink or MacPorts can help with this somewhat.

I can’t think of any software that’s available for Linux, but not for Mac (sadly, since I’m a Linux guy). Why are you looking for such a thing?

Great question! I too, have a piece of enterprise software that runs in Linux, but my development machine is a Mac. Hopefully someone comes up with a solution — emulation layer for Linux binaries on Mac.

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Well there is a project introducing something like Linux’s binfmt_misc to OS X so now what you need is an ELF loader, a dynamic linker that can load both Mach-O and ELF, and some mechanism to translate Linux calls to OS X ones.

Just for inspiration, you can implement the dynamic linker in the fashion that it ignores filename extension — both libfoo.so.1 (as an Linux ELF) and libfoo.1.dylib (as an Mach-O) can be loaded so that OS X versions of system libraries can be reused so that you do not need to write a «hosted on OS X» libc.so and syscalls can be handled by an kext that translates Linux calls to OS X ones in kernel.

Or, in an more elegant way, implement a stripped down Linux kernel as a kext that makes the OS X kernel a dual-purpose. However that will require you to use two sets of libraries. (Binaries do not clash so it is largely okay)

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Is it possible to install Linux packages on OS X?

I know that the Mac commandline is very similar to that of Linux operating systems, so it would be nice to use some features of Linux in my Mac, specially installing Linux packages. For example, in Linux we can install a package by simply typing sudo apt-get install «package name» at the prompt. Is it possible to do something like this on Mac?

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Yes, it is possible to install and run a variety of UNIX applications on OS X. There are a few solutions out there, my choice and recommendation is Homebrew. I’ve found other solutions to be overly complex and unwieldy.

in linux terminal installing command does any thing automatically it downloads files and . how about Homebrew? is it required to download files manually?

@peaceman once you’ve set up Homebrew, it downloads all the dependencies and files you need for any package you install from its repository. It’s a beautiful thing, really.

@CajunLuke for one MacPorts will install duplicates of everything it needs. Don’t want another bzip2? Too bad, you’re getting one. Brew on the other hand leverages the existing system. I have 23 packages I like to install. With Macports that balloons with dependancies to 144 packages. With Homebrew, only 44. That’s what I call «overly complex». You should seriously try Homebrew. You’ll like it better.

Like I said, you should seriously try it. It’s easier to manage, it’s easier to use, it’s easier to fix and it’s easier to contribute. I’m not trying to win. Just see for yourself, then pick the one you prefer.

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How To Run Linux Apps On Mac

How To Run Linux Apps On Mac. Wine lets you run windows software on linux, and darling does the same for macos software. There are options to run linux temporarily on a mac, for example, by using virtual box.

Installing linux on a mac involves downloading and installing linux on a mac. You will see a selection of images after clicking select image. However, if you’re looking for a more permanent solution, you can overwrite your current operating system with the linux distro of your choice.

Install linux on a bootable drive. Click “download” to save the configuration to disk, then open utm and click file > import virtual machine. There is a project called “darling” (a play the darwin layer on macos) that has been working on it.

For Information About How To Install An App, See The Etcher Instructions.

To run mac apps on linux, you’ll need some sort of virtual machine or translation layer. Simply head to the gallery page and select the vm you would like to install. It’s impressive that a ‘90s version of mac os has been ported to run in javascript. If you use linux as your host operating system then with one or two commands you can have most graphical linux applications up and running on your desktop in seconds. Mac os 8 is now an app you can download and install on macos, windows, and linux.

This Command Will Display The Mac Os Name, Product Version And Build Version:

Download the linux iso of your choosing. You can also run a translation layer called darling. Using a vm to run linux on the mac studio. Open your applications folder and click utilities. Wine lets you run windows software on linux, and darling does the same for macos software.

Next, click view in the top left corner of the window. There are options to run linux temporarily on a mac, for example, by using virtual box. Click “download” to save the configuration to disk, then open utm and click file > import virtual machine.

If You Are Running An Xwindows.

By using a virtual machine. ./configure make /usr/bin/sudo make install. And during the configure step, you will have to take care to use the standard sets of x11 libraries (disclaimer: If you use linux as your host operating system then with one or two commands you can have most graphical linux applications up and running on your desktop in seconds. Using a vm to run linux on the mac studio.

Select Your Macos Partition And Then Click Partition.

Save your virtualization file and wait for the install to finish. You can also run a translation layer called darling. Macbook pro 13 (2022) won’t natively run linux. There are options to run linux temporarily on a mac, for example, by using virtual box. Installing linux on a mac.

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Is there a way to run a Linux binary on macOS?

Is there a way to run a Linux binary in macOS? I tried to run a binary but it said it isn’t executable.

Well OS X does not use elf binaries, so it’s a bit like trying to run windows .exe. However, a brief search finds this: osxbook.com/software/xbinary If you can recompile your code, it’s not an issue.

XBinary requires a program that knows how to run your binary; it in and of itself doesn’t run anything.

@ott— You can use «wine» to run Windows binary on Linux. Maybe there is a wine-like thing to run Linux binary on macOS.

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Update years later: The Noah repo has now been archived. I haven’t found a good alternative.

I recently starting using Noah to run Linux binaries in macOS. You can install using homebrew ( brew install linux-noah/noah/noah ). Then you should be able to do this:

In my experience the behavior of the binary matches what I see on my Ubuntu machine.

Outdated answer, it does not work anymore. noah has been removed from homebrew and the source code is archived.

These answers are half correct, because virtualization is a choice but there is another. May I present.

History

1. First there was UNIX, circa 1972
2. Then the Timeline Split
   • In 1977, for $90, Bob Fabry and others, compiled/built the first versions of BSD, short for Berkeley Systems Distribution.
   • In 1991, Linus Torvalds posted in a Newsgroup, about software he used from Richard Stallman, who started GNU in 1983, and Linus’es UNIX was born.
   • Apple reacquired NeXT Software in 1996, after Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1984, and used the software and people there to build OS X. OS X is the Darwin OS + the NeXT Desktop Environment. And now we’re back to Bullet #1, as Darwin is a closed source fork of BSD. For the Open Source Project, see PureDarwin. For the Official Apple Developer Page, see Apple Open Source.

How We Can Use This

BSD’s traditionally use the Ports system for Package Management. The most widely used of these are the FreeBSD Ports. Ports are packages installed directly from source. Since the same Linux applications come from the same sources, you can run a Linux application if its port exists. Don’t use these Ports on a Mac because.

Since all of Apple’s GUI’s are written using the Cocoa API — WikiEntry, bundled with XCode — OS X for Developers, the Ports can be tuned to take advantage of this:

1. Install XCode for your version of OS X.
2. Bundled inside XCode is Apple’s version of the GCC Compiler, and all the other associated tools. To update the tools, see this post on StackOverflow. The tools are OS Version dependant, ie they are not backwards compatible, to my knowledge (in short, don’t install XCode for 10.8 on 10.6, etc.)
3. Having installed XCode you now have a compiler, and can head on over to the MacPorts page and browse for the port you need installed, after installing the MacPorts .pkg installer

Caveat

The ports system doesn’t necessarily do dependency checking, unless the port was well written. I lightly touched on the problem in what does elibc_FreeBSD mean in gentoo portage overlays?

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