Introducing Homebrew

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1. Homebrew Introducing Homebrew The missing package manager for OS X

2. http://schwuk.com @schwuk

3. What is it? • Package management for OS X that

   works (and doesn’t suck) • Powered by Ruby and Git • Only requires Xcode* • Pretty popular

4. How popular?

5. Why do I need it? • Mac App Store doesn’t

   carry (much) FLOSS • Not everything is packaged for OS X • Avoid making mistakes when building/ installing manually

6. MTOWTDI • Fink • MacPorts • By hand*

7. Fink • Debian based • Relies on software being packaged

   • Issues with ‘stable’ and ‘unstable’ lagging behind - just like Debian ;)

8. MacPorts • BSD Ports • Similar issue with versions

9. Homebrew • “Designed” for OS X • Sticks to one

   standard prefix - /usr/local • Doesn’t duplicate what Apple already provides • Very active user community

10. What’s not-so-good? • Support for running multiple, differing versions of

    formulas can be difficult • Doesn’t duplicate anything that Apple already provides

11. Getting Started

12. Requirements • An Intel CPU • OS X 10.5 or

    higher • Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode • Java Developer Update 5

13. Install /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl - fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/ homebrew/master/Library/ Contributions/install_homebrew.rb)"

14. Update brew update

15. Find... brew search git

16. ...and install brew install git

17. More commands brew info [name] brew uninstall [name] brew upgrade

    [name] brew cleanup [name]

18. My favourite tipples • bazaar • git • git-flow •

    mercurial • node • redis • postgresql • mysql • mongodb • macvim • znc • dot

19. What else? • Editing formulae • Creating formulae • Using

    other “taps”

20. Homebrew • http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ • irc://irc.freenode.net/#machomebrew • [email protected] • http://twitter.com/machomebrew