Installing Homebrew on OS X

Installing Homebrew on OS X

Homebrew is a package manager designed for installing UNIX tools and other open-source applications on Mac OS X. It will quickly download and install them, compiling them from source. Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew with support for installing binary apps — the kind you normally drag to your Applications folder from DMG files.

1. Install Xcode 7,8, ...

Get Xcode App

2. Get Command Line Tools

Open terminal and paste: 

xcode-select --install

3.Install Homebrew

To download install Homebrew run the install script on the command line as below and let the script do its thing:

Terminal: 

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

After installing and as suggested in the command line, to check for any issues with the install run:

brew doctor

To search for an application:

brew search

To install

brew install <application-name>

To list all apps installed by Homebrew

brew list

To remove an installed application

brew remove <application-name>

To update Homebrew

brew update

To see what else you can do

man brew

Where does Homebrew install stuff …. in the Cellar

/usr/local/Cellar/