How to install mwinit?

• Go to the AdaCore Community page.
• Download the GNAT installer.
• Run the GNAT installer. Leave all options checked on the "Select Components" page.

MacBooks use a disk image or .dmg files for installing software. Sometimes you will come across a package or .pkg file, and sometimes these files are compressed into a Zip file (.zip). All applications are stored in the Applications folder.

1. Double-click the application file you've downloaded from the Internet. If you get an error message that says the program "can't be opened because it wasn't downloaded from the Mac App Store," right-click the downloaded file and select Open.

Mac installation files are named .dmg, .pkg, or .zip. If it’s a zip file, this will unpack the zip automatically into its own folder. If it’s not a zip file, skip to the next step. Once the zip file has been unpacked, navigate to that folder, where you will find a .dmg or .pkg file.

2. Follow the instructions.

3. Drag the application to the Applications folder. Most .pkg files will do all the work for you, but sometimes with .dmg files, you will need to drag the app to the applications folder. Your application is now installed.

4. Delete the downloaded file once you’re done.

If you want to uninstall an app you downloaded from the Mac App Store, Apple provides an easy way.

1. Press F4 to bring up Launchpad view, and click and hold on an app. Icons will begin to jiggle and any programs you can uninstall from here will have an X in their top left corner.

2. Click the X in the top right corner of an app.

3. Select Delete.

The program is uninstalled.

Uninstalling an application downloaded from other sites is even easier.

1. Drag the application from your Applications folder to the trash. If prompted, enter your password and click OK. This doesn't erase the tiny preference files that applications place in your system, so continue below to learn how to thoroughly uninstall a program.

Before you start, download and install AppCleaner.

1. Open AppCleaner and click the Finder icon.

2. Click Applications in the left menu.

3. Drag an application into AppCleaner.

4. Click Remove.

5. Enter your password and click OK.

The program has been uninstalled.

In some cases, such as Ubuntu, you can install the latest rolling release with an official image. In others, we turn to the WSL community for assistance, and that's exactly the case for anyone looking to install Linux Mint right now.

Thanks to a project hosted on GitHub, installing Linux Mint onto WSL is a breeze, and furthermore, it's already on the latest version, Linux Mint 20.3.

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution and is certainly one of the more mainstream options out there, often praised as a perfect place for Windows converts to begin. Of course, using Linux in WSL is a little different from just loading it up on a PC, but if you need it or just want it, you can have it.

So, if you want to use it on WSL, you'll be needing to use an excellent community project simply called LinuxmintWSL. It's hosted at GitHub, so the first port of call is to load up its repository. It's also only built for WSL 2, so if you aren't using that yet, check out our full guide to get ready. It does, however, support both Intel/AMD and ARM machines, so Windows on ARM users aren't left out.

On the GitHub repository, hit the releases page and download the latest package. Once downloaded, extract the zip file to the directory you want to run it from, then simply run Mint.exe. Unlike installing Ubuntu's latest releases from one of the official images, this has been bundled up to resemble more the distros you would download from the Microsoft Store.

It'll take a few seconds (or longer depending on your hardware) to run its installation, but the installer doesn't require any interaction from you. It'll open a terminal window and when it's complete you'll be asked to press Enter. The terminal window will then close.

If you use Windows Terminal, Mint will now show in the dropdown menu to launch the next time you load it up. If you don't, you can launch it through PowerShell the same as any other Linux distro with this command:

By default you'll only have root access, so you'll need to do some basic setup before you get rolling.

Enter Mint in your terminal using one of the methods described above. You'll be presented with a basic prompt that begins with

. As with any other Linux distro on WSL, you'll want to add a user to Mint with the right permissions before doing anything. You don't have a password, either, so you'll need to add one of those before beginning.

In the terminal enter:

Follow the prompts to set a root password. Next, we'll add a user with:

And then we'll follow that up with a password for the user with:

Again, follow the prompts to add your password. These commands have added a root password, a user, and a user password.

The next step is to add the right permissions to your user to be able to use the sudo command, otherwise you'll be met with an error. We can do this by entering:

You can then switch to your user with:

The next thing to do is to ensure that when you launch Mint if you want to be user and not root (which is advisable), you configure it so you don't have to manually do it every time. There are two ways to do this, the first is with the wsl.conf file and the second is by configuring Windows Terminal if you use that.

You won't have a wsl.conf file when you first set up Linux Mint, so we'll need to create that and enter the right settings. As we're going to be inside the /etc/ directory it's easiest to be root for this one. In the terminal as root enter:

The Nano text editor will now open with a new blank file. Enter this block into the file:

Hit Ctrl + X followed by Y and then Enter to save and exit. Close down your Linux Mint instance, wait a few seconds (eight is the official line from Microsoft), and then when you relaunch you should be ready to go, already logged in as user.

Alternatively, if you're using Windows Terminal, open the Settings, find your Linux Mint install in the sidebar, and then in the command line box ensure this command is stored:

This will have the same effect once closed down and restarted. Setting up a wsl.conf file is preferable, though, as it ensures you're always entering as user. If you use the Windows Terminal settings and you load up Linux Mint via PowerShell, you'll be taken in as root.

That's all there is to it. Linux Mint is now set up on WSL for you to use just like any other you would install through the Microsoft Store. You may find some GUI apps have appeared in your Start menu as well that come with the standard installation of Linux Mint, but those can all be removed if you don't want them (and the chances are you don't).

— Homebrew is the most popular package manager for Mac OS X. Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew with support for quickly installing Mac .

Homebrew is a package manager for macOS that allows you to install software using the “brew” command at the command line. It’s easy to set up and simple to use once you’re familiar with a few basic commands.

To download Homebrew on a Mac, you just need to execute a few commands in a Terminal window. Homebrew works on both Apple Silicon (M1, M2, and so on) Mac models as well as older Intel-based machines.

To get started, launch Terminal (use Spotlight or find it under Applications > Utilities), then paste (or type) the following followed by the Enter key:

You’ll be prompted for your admin password. Type it and then hit Enter to proceed.

Next, you’ll be notified of what is about to be installed as part of the Homebrew setup process. This includes the Xcode Command Line Tools, which will be installed for you alongside other essential Homebrew components. Hit Enter to start installing Homebrew on macOS.

Now, you must wait for the various packages to download and install. How long this takes largely depends on your internet speed, but the whole thing should be over in around five minutes or so. Once the installation is complete, you’ll be prompted to run two more commands.

First, run the following two commands to add Homebrew to your PATH:

If you don’t run these two commands, you’ll get a “command not found: brew” when trying to run Homebrew commands.

You can run brew update to make sure your list of available packages is up to date. Lastly, run the brew doctor command to make sure everything is working as advertised. Homebrew will list any issues and the commands you need to run to fix them.

Use the “brew install name command to install applications on your Mac, replacing “name” with the name of the application you want to install. Homebrew can install both graphical applications (known as casks) and open-source command-line tools (known as formulae). For example, to install Firefox, you would run:

If you’re looking for a particular piece of software, you can search for it using the brew search command:

You can find a list of all formulae and casks available on the Homebrew Formulae website.

You can limit your commands to just casks or formulae using the --cask or --formula options, for example:

You can find a list of packages you have installed using the brew list command. Once you’ve found a package, you can get more information about what it does using the brew info command, including a description, any associated .APP files, the project homepage, and the current version:

By default, Homebrew uses only the core directory of formulae, casks, and external commands. You may have to install some applications by “tapping” into another repistory using the brew tap command. Running this command on its own will list all currently tapped directories.

To remove an app you’ve installed using Homebrew, run the brew remove command (with or without --formula or --cask options), for example:

There are a lot more Homebrew commands and options that you can use, but these are the basics. For a full list of commands and additional options check out the Homebrew Documentation.

Homebrew makes it possible to install applications with a single command, right from macOS Terminal. This removes the need to search for an app website, find a download link, download a .DMG or .PKG file, drag the .APP file into your Applications folder or run the .PKG, and dispose of whatever’s left over.

Using brew search you can find applications based purely on their name and install them in a flash. It’s also easy to keep these apps up to date, simply run the brew upgrade command to update everything, or limit the command to a specific cask or formula for example:

For open-source utilities, Homebrew is an all-in-one tool that can find, download, install, and maintain everything for you. It installs any other dependencies you may need for a utility to work, a tedious process that can otherwise require step-by-step installation.

Some of the most useful utilities (and their dependencies) can be installed in mere seconds with Homebrew, including Docker (docker), Node.js (node), Python (pyenv), Java (java), PostgreSQL (postgresql@15) and Npm (npm).

Homebrew is a free package manager that allows you to find, install, and maintain open-source utilities and graphical applications using simple text commands. The application can be installed and used entirely via the Terminal utility built into macOS.

You can remove Homebrew by downloading and running the uninstall script with the following command:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

This is covered in the final part of the Homebrew setup process. Once you’ve installed Homebrew the installer should prompt you to run two more commands, the first is:

And the second is:

If you encounter a “command not found” error while attempting to run brew commands you’ve either not got Homebrew installed or you didn’t run the final two commands as prompted during the setup process.

Don’t remember installing Homebrew? Run the installer using the following command in Terminal:

Otherwise, run the final two commands so that macOS recognizes the brew command when you try and run it. The first is:

And the second is:

If you find formulae or casks in the Homebrew Formulae browser that won’t show up when you run the brew search command, you might need to tap the core package list again. To do this, first run:

Now tap the core again manually using:

Don’t forget to run brew doctor if things aren’t working properly for more guidance.

Homebrew is installed in the /opt/homebrew directory on your Macintosh HD drive. You can get there by launching Finder followed by Go > Go to Folder (Command+Shift+G) and typing “/opt/homebrew” followed by Enter.

To find out where a specific package is installed, use the brew info command, for example:

You don’t need the full Xcode package to install Homebrew, just the Xcode Command Line Tools. These should be installed when you attempt to install Homebrew. Alternatively, you can install them yourself using the following Terminal command: