**Note**
The following procedures will install the shairport-sync application into your system. Before continuing, you should check to see if shairport-sync is already installed -- you can use `which shairport-sync` to find where it is located, if installed. If it is installed you should delete it -- you may need to have superuser privileges. After deleting, check again in case further copies are installed elsewhere.
-(If the existing installation of shairport-sync is where the new copy will be installed into, it will be overwritten; sometimes, however, the installation is to another location, so it is safer, initially, to delete previous versions manually.)
+(If the existing installation of shairport-sync is where the new copy will be installed into, it will be overwritten; sometimes, however, the installation is to another location, so it is safer, initially, to delete previous versions manually.)
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+**Mac OS X**
+A [HomeBrew](http://brew.sh) package exists for Shairport Sync. With HomeBrew installed, Shairport Sync can be installed using the command `$brew install shairport-sync`. Note that the installation uses the `libao` library and so synchronisation is not available – playback glitches will occur occasionally, when the buffers overflow or underflow.
**Ubuntu**
Personal Package Archives for Shairport Sync master and development branches are available at https://launchpad.net/~dantheperson.