Definitely agree with the apt-get comment. It's burn into my muscle memory and one of he biggest reasons I had to switch back to Ubuntu on my new MacBook at work.
Have you tried homebrew under OS X? It's pretty great:
I did actually and I know it is pretty good, but I must have had bad luck that day. Used it with the loaner for a couple of weeks until the laptop I picked showed up. Just felt productive in Ubuntu/Debian much quicker.