This DOESN'T work for things on SourceForge, where the links are actually Note that curl writes its output to stdout, I then paste the URL into the curl command in a ssh login This copies the URL to the package to theĬlipboard. Or right-click the package link in Safari (running locally) and select I use 'curl' to fetch the package from the net. ĭon't try to download it to some target directory like /etc or /usr I usually download packages to the ~admin/staging directory. Installation of Mac OS X packages via the command line.ĭownload the installation image to a local directory. This describes some of the steps necessary to perform the Very useful when you admin a machine only via SSH. DMG images remotely via the Terminal: 'Here is a writeup I did last year on how to download disk images, mount them, and install software from the command line.