Homebrew, via the command brew, is a package manger for Mac like apt-get is for Debian.
brew installs packages to their own directory /usr/local/Cellar and then symlinks their files into /usr/local/bin.
Basic Usage:
Install brew
/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)”
Update Homebrew
brew update
Install an App
brew install wget
Uninstall an App
brew uninstall wget
Upgrade an App
brew update wget
Remove stale file and outdated downloads
brew cleanup
Analytics:
Recently brew has turned on analytics recording from your device to a google cloud server. If you wish to disable this you can run
brew analytics off
Or you can enter the following in your environment, .bash_profile
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
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