Installing Yara on Mac OS X Maverick

Get Homebrew for Mac:

• ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Get Yara 3.2.0 package from https://github.com/plusvic/yara/releases/latest

• wget https://github.com/plusvic/yara/archive/v3.2.0.tar.gz
• tar -zxf v3.2.0.tar.gz
• cd yara-3.2.0
• chmod +x build.sh
• autoreconf -i --force
• ./build.sh
• autoreconf -i --force
• sudo make install

Then install yara-python extension:

• cd yara-python
• python setup.py build
• sudo python setup.py install

If it is a success, let's do some testing on yara and yara-python.

• Test yara

$ yara -v
  yara 3.2.0 

• Test yara-python

$ python -c "import yara;print yara.__file__"
  /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yara/__init__.pyc