m0rg-dev / mac-dnf

the package manager is still missing

macdnf

A port of Fedora's dnf package manager to macOS, and a compatible package repository.

Supports both x86_64 and arm64 machines, though some packages (notably qemu and gcc) are not yet operational on arm64 due to lack of upstream support.

Since the package repository is small (but getting bigger!) and I am one person working on this, I'm interested to hear about what people want to use! If you've decided to try this out (for some reason) and you're missing your favorite packages from brew or whatever, put in an issue and I'll prioritize porting them.

Installation

This conflicts with Homebrew! I have vague aspirations of changing this, but dnf and rpm are set up to assume that packages will be installed in the same place (here /usr/local) everywhere, so modifying them to support arbitrary-prefix installations is a non-trivial amount of work. I definitely think it's possible, I just haven't really sat down and hashed out what needs to change yet.

If you do have Homebrew installed, the following commands should get it out of the way in a reversible manner:

# Unlink all your Homebrew packages
brew list -1 | tee brew_previously_linked.txt | xargs -n 1 brew unlink
# Put them back later (if you want)
<brew_previously_linked.txt xargs -n 1 brew link

YMMV, though. I don't use brew anywhere at the moment (all my macOS machines are using dnf now) so I haven't tested that.

Then, to install dnf:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/digitalagedragon/mac-dnf/main/install.sh)"

Or clone this repo and run install.sh directly.

Uninstallation

rpm -qa | xargs rpm -e

Notes

This is still in very early development. The author has tested it somewhat on a few Big Sur (both architectures) machines, but there's no guarantee it won't make demons fly out of your nose. Pull requests / issues welcome.

The package repository is currently a work in progress. My current goal is to support most of this sample of Homebrew's top 100 user-installed packages:

brew100 status

brew pkg	status	dnf pkg
node	✔	node
[email protected]	✔	python3.9 (python)
postgresql	✘
[email protected]	✔✘	python3.8, but no library support yet
imagemagick	✘
youtube-dl	✘
awscli	✔	aws-cli
git	✘
[email protected]	✔	libopenssl
yarn	✘
ffmpeg	✘
cmake	✔	cmake
wget	✔	wget
gnupg	✔	gnupg
htop	✘
mysql	✘
vim	✘
pyenv	✘
go	✘
automake	✔	automake
zsh	✘
curl	✔	curl, libcurl
php	✘
ruby	✘
nvm	✘
tmux	✘
glib	✔	glib2, glib2-utils
ansible	✘
gradle	✘
openjdk	✘
sqlite	✔	libsqlite, sqlite
nginx	✘
coreutils	✘
watchman	✘
redis	✘
libpq	✘
kubernetes-cli	✘
nmap	✘
composer	✘
heroku/brew/heroku	✘
gh	✘
jq	✘
libxml2	✘
pkg-config	✔	pkgconf (pkg-config)
helm	✘
azure-cli	✘
gcc	✔✘	Only on x86_64 hosts.
telnet	✘
readline	✔	libreadline
cocoapods	✘
gnutls	✘
krb5	✔	libkrb5, krb5
libtool	✔	libtool (need to add glibtool link)
ruby-build	✘
unbound	✘
maven	✘
terraform	✘
docker	✘
zlib	✘
graphviz	✘
pango	✘
git-lfs	✘
pipenv	✘
minikube	✘
mongodb/brew/mongodb-community	✘
fzf	✘
bash	✘
protobuf	✘
gobject-introspection	✘
libksba	✔	libksba
pandoc	✘
[email protected]	✘
sphinx-doc	✔	python-sphinx
gdk-pixbuf	✘
[email protected]	✘
harfbuzz	✘
rbenv	✘
tree	✘
subversion	✘
libass	✘
aws/tap/aws-sam-cli	✘
[email protected]	✘
poppler	✘
libyaml	✔	libyaml
bat	✘
mysql-client	✘
qt	✔	libqt
opencv	✘
librsvg	✘
sbt	✘
hugo	✘
unrar	✘
freetds	✘
autoconf	✔	autoconf
numpy	✔	numpy
mercurial	✘
openldap	✘
ccache	✘
fastlane	✘
direnv	✘