Perhaps you're referring to Linuxbrew - "a fork of Homebrew, the Mac OS package manager, for Linux."

It exposes the same repository as its OSX counterpart, with linux-flavoured customisations where necessary.

From feature list at http://linuxbrew.sh/

- Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo

- Install software not packaged by the native distribution

- Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old

- Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines