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Homebrew Introducing Homebrew The missing package manager for OS X

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http://schwuk.com @schwuk

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What is it? • Package management for OS X that works (and doesn’t suck) • Powered by Ruby and Git • Only requires Xcode* • Pretty popular

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How popular?

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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

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MTOWTDI • Fink • MacPorts • By hand*

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Fink • Debian based • Relies on software being packaged • Issues with ‘stable’ and ‘unstable’ lagging behind - just like Debian ;)

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MacPorts • BSD Ports • Similar issue with versions

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Homebrew • “Designed” for OS X • Sticks to one standard prefix - /usr/local • Doesn’t duplicate what Apple already provides • Very active user community

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What’s not-so-good? • Support for running multiple, differing versions of formulas can be difficult • Doesn’t duplicate anything that Apple already provides

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Getting Started

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Requirements • An Intel CPU • OS X 10.5 or higher • Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode • Java Developer Update 5

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

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Update brew update

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Find... brew search git

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...and install brew install git

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More commands brew info [name] brew uninstall [name] brew upgrade [name] brew cleanup [name]

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My favourite tipples • bazaar • git • git-flow • mercurial • node • redis • postgresql • mysql • mongodb • macvim • znc • dot

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What else? • Editing formulae • Creating formulae • Using other “taps”

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