Fortunately, HomeBrew tells you how to do that under “Next Steps”. Most importantly, you’ll have to set the path where HomeBrew stores its packages and where you will be able to modify it. It will tell you on the last couple of lines what you need to do to start using Homebrew. If we try to use Brew now we’ll get nowhere fast. Pay attention to this line that says that “Brew is not in your PATH”. Once it’s done, you have Brew installed, but you’re not done yet. It should only take a minute or two at most for it to download and install everything. If you’re ready to go through with it, hit Enter. Keep in mind you won’t see anything appear on screen as you type the password.Īssuming everything was typed in correctly, you’ll be presented with a list of what is going to be downloaded and installed and from where. When you’re ready, hit Enter, and type in your admin password when prompted, and hit enter again. This script is going to fetch and run the brew installer from GitHub. Now we’re going to paste this into our Terminal. I recommend hitting the little Paste icon next to the command on the webpage though as that will always be the most recent form of the command. We’re going to copy the command at the tope of the page and paste it into our Terminal (if you haven’t already, open your Terminal app). All we’re worried about at this moment is this top section where it says “Install HomeBrew” with a Terminal command below it. This will take you to the HomeBrew homepage where you can find more details about Homebrew, its installation, options, and can even search for packages. Open your web browser and type in “ brew.sh”in the address bar and hit Enter. Once the Command Line Tools are installed, we can actually start installing HomeBrew. The good news is that if you forget and install Brew without the tools, Brew will actually prompt you to download and install them before it continues its work. If you don’t already have them installed, you’ll get a prompt to install them. This step might fail if you already have Xcode or another similar programming suite installed. Don’t worry, you don’t need Xcode installed or know how to use it, we just need to install this in order to use HomeBrew to its fullest. Xcode is Apple’s own app development and programming suite. Now we need to install what’s called the Xcode Command Line Tools. But if you are in the Terminal on a regular basis, are wanting to learn it, or have some very specific tools you want to use, then HomeBrew might just be for you. If you’re rarely in the Terminal, HomeBrew probably isn’t for you. If you haven’t heard of it before, HomeBrew is an incredibly powerful set of Terminal tools for Mac and Linux that can let you do everything from install and uninstall apps from lists, to automate functions, expand the functionality of your machine, and so much more.
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