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Homebrew Xcode



Sometimes you want to install software that is typically categorized as F/OSS(Free, or Open Source Software).

Homebrew is a packaging system for OS X whichmakes installing (and keeping them updated) many of these bits of software easy.

Install Xcode Command Line

Install Xcode

Xcode

How to install Homebrew on macOS Catalina or M1 Mac Open Terminal and enter this command xcode-select -install Click Install from the popup. Go through the T&C and click Agree if you do. Homebrew is a packaging system for OS X which makes installing (and keeping them updated) many of these bits of software easy. Install Xcode¶ To start with, we need to install Overview¶ Sometimes you want to install software that is typically categorized as F/OSS (Free, or Open Source Software).

To start with, we need to install the Xcode tools. Its not necessary toinstall all of Xcode to do this. We can simply run:

Homebrew Xcode

Install homebrew

Homebrew Xcode Free

Now that we have Xcode tools installed, we can install homebrew. Start bylooking at the web page: http://brew.sh

When you’re ready, open up Terminal.app and paste in the following (thisassumes you are using a bourne shell derivitive. If not, you will needto modifiy as appropriate):

Homebrew installs a bunch of files into ‘/usr/local’ and its intended to berun as a regular user (with the implication that ‘/usr/local’ needs to beowned and writable by said regular user.

Brew update

The first thing you should know how to do is update the brew repository.

This will reach out to github and pull down the current version of thehomebrew repository, containing all the recipies for packages you may want touse.

Brew install example

Now that you have homebrew installed, you can use it to install software. Forexample, I like to install the ‘mtr’ package instead of using the traditionaltraceroute. The install process looks like this:

The output from running ‘sudo mtr -c 1 google.com’ might look like:

If you don’t want to have to call mtr with sudo, you can do the following:

You will probably have to substitute a newer version for the ‘0.86’. After yourun these commands, you should be able to execute mtr with out using sudo.

Homebrew

Homebrew Xcode Download

Brew search

Now, you can go use brew to install other software. Search the list ofavailable packages with

If you don’t specify a name or an expression ‘/expression/’, it will dump allthat is available.

Once you’ve selected the package you wish to install, you can

Homebrew Xcode

Homebrew Xcode Update

Brew upgrade (all)

Lastly, you should know how to upgrade packages you’ve installed. Presumingyou’ve already run a ‘brew update’ (discussed above), you should run

Homebrew Xcode Command Line Tools

This will look through all of the packages you have installed, compare it tothe current list (this information was fetched when you ran ‘brew update’),and then it will upgrade any packages that are out of date.