Fossil is a distributed version control system that is focused on speed, accuracy, and ease of use. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Fossil on macOS.
Before we get started with the installation, make sure that you have:
To download Fossil, go to the website http://www.fossil-scm.org/ and click on the "Download" button. On the next page, select the "macOS" option in the dropdown menu and then click on the "Download Fossil" button. This will download the Fossil binary for macOS.
Once the download is complete, open your terminal application and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the Fossil binary. You can use the cd command to change directories.
cd /path/to/downloaded/fossil/binary
Next, make the Fossil binary executable using the following command:
chmod +x fossil
Finally, move the Fossil binary to /usr/local/bin for global access by using the following command:
sudo mv fossil /usr/local/bin/
You will be asked to enter your system password for the sudo command.
To verify that Fossil is installed properly, you can run the following command:
fossil version
If everything is installed correctly, you should see the output that includes the Fossil version number.
That's it! You have successfully installed Fossil on your macOS machine. You can now use Fossil to manage your code repositories.
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