Introducing Homebrew

A brief overview of the Homebrew package management system for OS X, given at #codecumbria.

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

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2. http://schwuk.com
   @schwuk
   

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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
   

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4. How popular?
   

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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
   

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6. MTOWTDI
   • Fink
   • MacPorts
   • By hand*
   

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

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8. MacPorts
   • BSD Ports
   • Similar issue with versions
   

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9. 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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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
    

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11. Getting Started
    

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12. 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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13. 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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14. Update
    brew update
    

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15. Find...
    brew search git
    

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16. ...and install
    brew install git
    

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

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

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

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20. Homebrew
    • http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/
    • irc://irc.freenode.net/#machomebrew
    • homebrew@librelist.com
    • http://twitter.com/machomebrew
    

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