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 #### OS X
 
-* Install [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/)
+* Install [Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/) and [Homebrew](http://brew.sh)
+  or [MacPorts](http://www.macports.org)
 * Install sha1sum
 
 If you run into wget certificate errors, you may be missing the root SSL