Migrating from Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS) to OS X (dev environment) I'm about to migrate from Linux to OS X and I wonder if will encounter issues with development, as I probably will need lots of packages which are available in apt, yum package management systems. How can I find out whether these packages are available for OS X as well?
There’s a third-party package manager called Homebrew, which is in fairly common use in the Mac development community. It’s very similar to apt or yum on Linux systems, and will have a lot of the same packages.

The easiest way to find out if a package is available is to Google for “brew &lt;package name>” (as brew install is the installation command, not homebrew install), or to look through a list of Homebrew formulas like http://brewformulas.org.