OSX softwareupdate
July 29, 2006 Posted by Al Castle
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Categories: OSX, Puter Stuff
This is the first of many OSX related blog posts. I come from the early days of DOS, then into Linux/BSD while working in parallel with Windows when it came out. I’m comfortable with CLI, which I always have a few open and feel hindered if the command or app I want isn’t executable from the console.
Being new to OSX, I find the BSD based guts of the OS familiar and refreshing. I recently just discovered that I can check for, schedule, download and install software updates by executing softwareupdate as root.
It’s no apt-get, but at least there’s something there - without having to open system preferences, click software updates, check now. And yes I have it scheduled for daily, but the point is having the choice and flexibility to do it more than one way.
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