Munki is a popular open-source software deployment tool for macOS. It allows system administrators to manage and install software packages on macOS devices. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Munki on your Manjaro system.
Before getting started, make sure you have the following:
Munki is available on Github, so we need to install Git to fetch the code. Run the following command to install Git:
sudo pacman -S git
Munki requires Xcode Command Line Tools to be installed on your system. Run the following command to install Xcode Command Line Tools:
xcode-select --install
Now, we will clone the Munki repository using Git. Run the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/munki/munki.git
This will download the Munki code to your current directory.
Munki has a few dependencies that need to be installed to work properly. Run the following command to install dependencies:
sudo pacman -S python python-pyobjc python-pyopenssl python-pyasn1 python-simplejson python-pyobjc-framework-Cocoa
Now, we can install Munki using the make command. Run the following commands one by one:
cd munki
sudo make install
This will install Munki on your system.
To verify that Munki is installed and working properly, run the following command:
sudo munkiimport --help
This should display the help menu for Munki.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Munki on Manjaro. Munki is a great tool for managing macOS software deployments, and we hope this tutorial helped you get started with it. Happy deploying!
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