If reinstalling software feels repetitive, these tools have some ideas.

In Mathematica, a Package is a Mathematica text file that contains definitions of commands other than the ones that are built into the Mathematica application itself. In fact, Mathematica comes with a ...

Ever had a source package fail to build due to a missing file? If so, apt-file, a tool that searches online repositories for a specific file, may be the answer. Occasionally, when building a package ...

Way back in 2004—when Mac Gems was in its infancy—I reviewed Pacifist 1.6, a nifty utility for working with Mac OS X installer packages (.pkg and .mpkg files). If you’ve ever wondered what an ...

July 2026, blocking install scripts, Git dependencies, and remote URL sources by default. Every team running npm install in ...