Yoipes! MacOS Versions of iPadOS apps are showing up on the App Store.

The transition in to cross-platform apps [iPadOS to macOS] is happening, right now, on the App Store.

Many of us who have been keeping up with developer.apple.com releases and features know that Mac Catalyst is an exciting new feature that was released with Xcode 11, not very long ago.

Now, just this morning, in fact: I started getting releases on the App Store for apps that I had purchased on my former iOS and iPadOS devices.

My MacBook Air is running the latest beta of macOS 11.0 Big Sur, and now iPadOS apps are showing up in the App Store downloads, as prior purchases.

Fans of productivity and pipe organs will rejoice at the macOS presence of apps such as the Strand and Ott Organ Apps by Markus Sigg, as well as LiquidText, for example.

Perhaps these developers had been amongst some of the first to jump in on the Universal App Quick Start Program, recently offered by Apple; or, perhaps, the current Intel-CPU powered devices, with Mac Catalyst, could create the Universal Apps in and of their own capabilities, since Mac Catalyst had been offered with Xcode since version 11 (Xcode 12 is the current transitional | universal app development platform for producing macOS desktop or laptop [in my case, a gold MacBook Air 2020] binaries out of iOS and iPadOS apps - a somewhat different stake in the story on Apple's decisions to move their product lines' CPUs to ARM-powered processors over the next several months and, perhaps, a couple of years, at most).

Update - In order to [now, working... <-<] install Homebrew package manager on macOS,

the user would first have to install the Homebrew-core repo:

Homebrew/homebrew-core

🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS

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as such. 

I can rescind my former qualms about the authors' claims that a ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

would not have been sufficient. 

Steps that I took - 

1. Create a public git key. 

   Generating a new SSH key and adding it to the ssh-agent ...

   
   

   https://help.github.com › github › authenticating-to-github › generating-a-...

   
   

   
   
   After you've checked for existing SSH keys, you can generate a new SSH key to use for authentication, then add it to the ssh-agent.
   

   ‎Enterprise Server 2.16 · ‎Adding a new SSH key to your ... · ‎Working with SSH key ...

   
   

   as I did for myself, as this: ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "jay.ammon@gmail.com"

   
   

   you'll need to change the email address to your own, and add your own password.

   
   

   trivia - here's my generated ascii art image, which came with the key generation. I think it's cute.

   
   

   
   

   +---[RSA 4096]----+

   |    .o*oo        |

   |     =.=         |

   |  . o + .        |

   |   +   +    .    |

   |  ..+...S  o     |

   | ..+o=o...+ .    |

   |  =oo.E .o.= o   |

   |.=..o+  .o  =    |

   |++*=o. .o        |

   +----[SHA256]-----+

   
   
2. Clone the gitHub repository of Homebrew-core somewhat like this: git clone jay.ammon@gmail.com:Homebrew/homebrew-core.git
   
   
       
3. After installing those libraries, you'll surely, by now, want to play around with the original link for installing the "brew" command ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

In order to get the "brew" command fully working, you'll need to

check out the one with the Red / Yellow / Green Tags. 

5. Put the "brew" command in to the /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/bin/ folder. Use, (and get used to): the "shift + command + G" command [it lets you type, or copy and paste the folders you'd want to cd (change directory) in to.
 

from your /Users/(iMac - your name)/Downloads/homebrew-core-master/cmd/brew
(black exec {Terminal Executable} file)

to /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/bin/
as this photo shows.

pluuuUUppe. and dropped in there. it's done.

6. Next, you'll need to install glib. It's a general set of commands and libraries that you probably already have somewhere in your macOS, somewhere [<_ i="">but I figure that we might as well get it in from "brew" command.  

now you'll really see your Terminal start working.  

Just type in  

brew install glib 

into the Terminal. 

Check your /Cellar folder at 

( shift + command + G )

/usr/local/Cellar

Now, you are pwn'ing of on: bwapp, with the directory changing command and your folders in columns view.
translated - cool stuff is happening in the Terminal, right?

7. Look at all the interesting stuff that's transpiring after brew install glib happens:

8. Pretty cool stuff. 

Now,

you can go in to the Homebrew Formulae website at https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ and check out the thousands of repositories you might want to install (certainly not all of them, all on your own and by yourself; but some - that appeal to your strengths and interests).

ace	6.5.7	ADAPTIVE Communication Environment: OO network programming in C++
aces_container	1.0.2	Reference implementation of SMPTE ST2065-4
ack	3.2.0	Search tool like grep, but optimized for programmers
acme	0.96.4	Crossassembler for multiple environments
acmetool	0.0.67	Automatic certificate acquisition tool for ACME (Let's Encrypt)
acpica	20191018	OS-independent implementation of the ACPI specification
activemq	5.15.11	Apache ActiveMQ: powerful open source messaging server
activemq-cpp	3.9.5	C++ API for message brokers such as Apache ActiveMQ
adios2	2.5.0	Next generation of ADIOS developed in the Exascale Computing Program
admesh	0.98.4	Processes triangulated solid meshes
adns	1.5.1	C/C++ resolver library and DNS resolver utilities