How to Install Fossil on macOS

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.

Prerequisites

Before we get started with the installation, make sure that you have:

• macOS installed on your machine.
• A terminal application (such as Terminal or iTerm) installed.

Step 1: Download Fossil

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.

Step 2: Install Fossil

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.

Step 3: Verify Installation

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.

Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed Fossil on your macOS machine. You can now use Fossil to manage your code repositories.