Install Mac programs on linux

minkmaster4000 · #1 10th January 2012, 05:34 PM

is there a way to install mac programs on linux?

IHeart SymLinks · #2 12th January 2012, 10:54 PM

Don't think so. What program would you want? They don't make for Linux?

Wayne · #3 13th January 2012, 12:39 AM

Dream on...

Ihatewindows · #4 2nd November 2012, 12:05 AM

Freebsd might be able to; it still might be a stretch. (Mac os is based on freebsd)

RHamel · #5 2nd November 2012, 12:25 AM

You might be able to run OSX under Virtualbox under Linux.

smr54 · #6 2nd November 2012, 01:14 AM

I was able to, at one point, run snow leopard on VMPlayer. It didn't run well--not sure of the legality--I didn't keep it, it was more out of curiosity.

If you want to try then just google sysprobs apple vmplayer

OS X uses a modified FreeBSD userland--that is, the kernel is different and I don't know if you could run an OS X program on FreeBSD, but tend to doubt it.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/f...ry/212006.html

Ah, seems I'm correct, it can't.

IHeart SymLinks · #7 12th December 2012, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by RHamel

You might be able to run OSX under Virtualbox under Linux.

I had a VM Ware image of some version of OSX. It worked, but internet didn't.

Dies · #8 12th December 2012, 09:56 PM

Here's some hope...

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling

IHeart SymLinks · #9 12th December 2012, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Dies

Here's some hope...

http://darling.dolezel.info/en/Darling

More hope than I thought there was :P

Thanks for sharing.

cyborg · #10 18th January 2013, 04:24 PM

Are you talking about any program in particular? Most will have an open source / a source compilable by Linux. I like the suggestion about BSD though, I'm very interested to see where that leads.

joncr · #11 18th January 2013, 05:07 PM

Programs that use Apple's GUI won't work on Linux, or anything else, including Darwin.

Darwin was released by Apple early on in the OS X development. It's been dead or on life support for some time, I think. It doesn't, and obviously won't, contain key OS X components like Quartz, Aqua, etc. It can't, by design, run Mac apps.

OS X is POSIX, and the usual traditional Unix/BSD/GNU toolset works. Those tools can be moved or ported to Linux, but they're already there, of course.

cyborg · #12 18th January 2013, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by joncr

Programs that use Apple's GUI won't work on Linux, or anything else, including Darwin.

Darwin was released by Apple early on in the OS X development. It's been dead or on life support for some time, I think. It doesn't, and obviously won't, contain key OS X components like Quartz, Aqua, etc. It can't, by design, run Mac apps.

OS X is POSIX, and the usual traditional Unix/BSD/GNU toolset works. Those tools can be moved or ported to Linux, but they're already there, of course.

I think today, it's more the Carbon and Cocoa, but yeah; you're right.

Ihatewindows · #13 19th January 2013, 04:28 AM

I just jailbroke my iPhone recently and noticed that is uses dpkg (the debian version of RPM.) So some Linux stuff is compatible with mac. I can even get zsh.

joncr · #14 19th January 2013, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ihatewindows

I just jailbroke my iPhone recently and noticed that is uses dpkg (the debian version of RPM.) So some Linux stuff is compatible with mac. I can even get zsh.

dpkg and rpm are terminal apps. They aren't Mac programs any more than they are KDE or Gnome programs.

If it runs in a shell and doesn't call Carbon/Cocoa/Quartz/Aqua/etc. then it isn't considered a "Mac" program. OS X is a POSIX-compliant Unix so it can run the usual Unix software stack. (It ships with it).