Best Free and Open Source Software for MacOs (and non-free)

Best Free and Open Source Software for MacOs

brew cask outdated | xargs brew cask reinstall

Kind of

Software

Brew command line setup

Software Manager

CakeBrew

See this article.
html and epub editor

Bluegriffon

brew cask install bluegriffon
html editor

Bluefish

brew cask install bluefish
Bibligraphy

Calibre

brew cask install calibre
Citation

Mendeley

brew cask install mendeley-desktop
Antivirus

Avg Antivirus

brew cask install avg-antivirus
   AntiMalware

Malwarebytes

brew cask install malwarebytes
Matrovska recipe manager

mkvtoolnix

brew install --with-qt mkvtoolnix

 

To run, on terminal:

/usr/local/Cellar/mkvtoolnix/15.0.0_1/bin/mkvtoolnix-gui

(change version when update)

DVD and Bluray Reeper

Makemkv

brew cask install makemkv
Video compressor

Handbrake

brew cask install handbrake
HTML and Text Editor

BBedit

(lite version is free, )

brew cask install bbedit

 

Monitor temperatures, SSD, memory. in your mac

HWSensors

brew cask install hwsensors
System manteinance and repair utilities

Onyx

brew cask install onyx
FTP, webdav, ssh client,…

Cyberduck

brew cask install cyberduck
Oracle’s Virtual Machine Manager

VirtualBox

brew cask install virtualbox

brew cask install virtualbox-extension-pack

Audio format converter: mp3, flac, m4a, wav, aiff,…

freac

brew cask install freac
Open Source Desktop Publishing

Scribus

brew cask install scribus
Graphic Design

Inkscape

brew cask install inkscape
The Free & Open Source Image Editor

Gimp

brew cask install gimp
Productivity Suite

LibreOffice

brew cask install libreoffice

brew cask install libreoffice-language-pack --language=es

Unarchiver with 7-zip support

Keka

brew cask install keka
Media player

Video Lan Client (VLC)

Brew cask install vlc
Free personal finance software, money management

Homebank

brew install homebank
El navegador 100 libre y ético

Firefox

brew cask install firefox
Bittorrent client.

Transmission

brew cask install transmission

For remote access:

brew cask install transmission-remote-gui

 

 

My privative Software

Soft Brew install
Carbon Copy Cloner brew cask install carbon-copy-cloner
   Little Snitch brew cask install little-snitch
  Transmit  brew cask install transmit
   Vmware Fusion brew cask install vmware-fusion
   Microsoft Office brew cask install microsoft-office

Cakebrew – Setup brew gui in MacOS

Cakebrew

Setup brew GUI in MacOS

 

Cakebrew is a graphical package manager for Homebrew. You can run brew update, brew install, brew doctor,… see what is installed, and what is in the github repositories.

Let’s to setup Home brew.

1. Set up xcode: in terminal

$ xcode-select --install

2. Set up Homebrew:

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

  • Setup Cakebrew

$ brew update && brew upgrade

$ brew tap caskroom/cask

$ brew cask install xquartz ##reboot for activate it, or log out and log in.

$ brew cask install cakebrew

3. Suggested Open Source Packages and standard MacOS software: here.

 

MacOS Math Station Howto: HomeBrew setup

MacOS Math Station howto

HomeBrew setup

1. Install Homebrew

In terminal

xcode-select --install

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

2. R, Rstudio and Mactex: this link (R-Bloggers).

brew tap caskroom/cask   brew install brew-cask   brew install Caskroom/cask/xquartz   brew cask install java   brew tap homebrew/science   brew install r   brew install Caskroom/cask/rstudio
# For latex:
 
brew cask install mactex
 
brew install libsvg curl libxml2 gdal geos boost
 
R CMD javareconf JAVA_CPPFLAGS=-I/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Headers
 
brew tap caskroom/fonts
brew cask install font-fira-code
brew cask install iterm2
brew cask install gitup           # if you want a GUI for git stuff (h/t @jennybryan)

From MacOS command line terminal, for Rcomander

brew install pandoc

3. Lyx:

brew cask install lyx

3. Install R commader from Rstudio Terminal, run:

install.packages("Rcmdr")

run cmdr from Rstudio

library("Rcmdr")

Press Yes

4. Install all R Comannder plugins. From Rstudio terminal

## Obtain names of all packages on CRAN

names.available.packages <- rownames(available.packages())

## Extract packages names that contain Rcmdr
Rcmdr.related.packages <- names.available.packages[grep("Rcmdr", names.available.packages)]

Rcmdr.related.packages

## Install these packages
install.packages(pkgs = Rcmdr.related.packages)

5. Install Anaconda Navigator:

  • From MacOS terminal, type:
brew cask install anaconda
  • Launch anaconda navigator from launchpad.

4. Install Orange 3 Data Mining.

  • Press in Install and launch Orange3.
  • Create a new project
  • In Menu Panel go to Addons, and select everything

 

  • Close  anaconda navigator
  • From MacOS terminal, type:
  • conda update --all
  • Open anaconda navigator from launchpad.

5. Install glueviz.

From anaconda navigator, press on install.

6. Install Octave.

  • For instructions, see this.

7. Install maxima.

brew tap homebrew/science
brew install maxima
brew install wxmaxima

Or download from here and drug to Applications.

8. Install PSPP.

brew install pspp

To run PSPP, in terminal: $ psppire.

9. Other Software? See here.