Tools: Flutter uses git for installation and upgrade. We recommend installing Xcode, which includes git, but you can also install git separately. Important: If you’re installing on a Mac with the latest Apple M1 processor, you may find these supplementary notes useful reading as we complete support for the new Apple Silicon architecture. For more information, see the security implications documentation for additional detail on what to keep in mind in this scenario. Install GitLab Runner as a service and start it: cd gitlab-runner install gitlab-runner start. GitLab Runner is installed and will be run after a system reboot.

wget is a robust command line application for downloading URL-specified resources. It was designed to work excellently even when connections are poor. Its unique feature, compared to curl which ships with macOS, for example, is that it is non-interactive so it can run in the background.

There are 2 ways to install wget: via Xcode or via Homebrew and I will cover both methods since not everyone uses Xcode or Homebrew.

Installing Wget via Xcode

Installing wget on Mac via Xcode requires you to build the tool from source and the steps are the same on all a Mac versions:

First, install Xcodevia iTunes and then install Xcode command line tools with the command:

Download wget source code using curl:

Extract and navigate into the folder and run the configure command:

Make and test wget:

If you get an error when you run the configure command then run it with an SSL flag like so:

Remember to delete the now-unnecessary files after the installation is complete.

Installing Wget via Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager for OS X that makes installing and managing applications a lot easier for Mac users.

There are alternatives like Fink and MacPorts but I prefer using Homebrew. Don’t worry if you don’t have it installed, I’ve got you covered:

Install Homebrew using the following command, it will also install Xcode’s command line tools if they aren’t already installed:

Next, install wget command-line download client.

How to Use Wget on Mac

As long as a file or directory’s URL is publicly accessible, you can download it and files can be downloaded singly or recursively when downloading directories.

Downloading a single file

The syntax is simple. the wget command, -X to indicate the file path (unless you want to save the downloaded content to your current working directory), and the public link.

Downloading a directory

The -e robots=off flag tells wget to ignore restrictions in the robots.txt file which is good because it prevents abridged downloads. -r (or --recursive) and -np (or --no-parent) tells wget to follow links within the directory that you’ve specified. Voila!

While that is all that you need to know to use wget for downloading files, there are many other commands that’ll enable you to control its usage and you can access them within your terminal in wget’s man page or online.

Have you got any questions to ask or suggestions to make? Feel free to drop your thoughts in the comments section below and don’t forget to share.

A quick tutorial on how set up a simple macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM. Jump over the break to learn more…

WHAT IS KVM?

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as a hypervisor.

KVM converts Linux into a type-1 (bare-metal) hypervisor and requires a processor with hardware virtualization extensions, such as Intel VT or AMD-V.

More info.

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DEPENDENCIES

Qemu 3.1 or later
python3
pip
KVM modules enabled
A Mac computer is NOT required

INSTALL

1. Install dependencies. You might also want to install git (not shown in the screenshot ). Depending on your distro:

For Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and PopOS: sudo apt-get install qemu-system qemu-utils python3 python3-pip
For Arch and Arch based distros: sudo pacman -S qemu python python-pip
For Void: sudo xbps-install -Su qemu python3 python3-pip
For openSUSE Tumbleweed: sudo zypper in qemu-tools qemu-kvm qemu-x86 qemu-audio-pa python3-pip
For Fedora: sudo dnf install qemu qemu-img python3 python3-pip

2. Clone this git https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM.git and cd to path.

3. Run jumpstart.sh to download installation media for macOS (internet connection required). The default installation uses macOS Catalina, but you can choose which version to get by adding either --high-sierra, --mojave, or --catalina. For example: ./jumpstart.sh --mojave

4. Create an empty hard disk using qemu-img, changing the name and size to preference: qemu-img create -f qcow2 MyDisk.qcow2 64G

NOTE: Change “MyDisk” to your preffered disk name. Change “64G” to your prefered disk size ( min. 20G )

5. Edit basic.sh with sudo nano basic.sh and add this at the end:

-drive id=SystemDisk,if=none,file=MyDisk.qcow2 -device ide-hd,bus=sata.4,drive=SystemDisk

Save the changes and exit.

NOTE: change “MyDisk” to your disk name set in previous step.

6. Run ./basic.sh

7. Boot into macOS Catalina Installer

8. Go to “Disk Utility” and format your disk

9. Once your disk is ready, you can install macOS Catalina. From now on, it’s your typical macOS install. No extra steps required.

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10. You’re done! To fine-tune the system and improve performance, look in the docs folder for more information on adding memory, setting up bridged networking, adding passthrough hardware (for GPUs), tweaking screen resolution, and enabling sound features. For further support, check out the official github page.