Homebrew, or brew, is a package manager for MacOS X. It provides a convienient CLI interface for managing software installations and updates.
Effectively, it's apt / yum for Mac users, and it's wonderful.
For installation / usage documentation, refer to http://brew.sh/
If you just want to make brew exist as a thing on your Mac and head into the utopian future of textual package management with reckless abandon, pop the below into your terminal and press enter
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Best of luck, and Godspeed.
A Brewfile, in conjunction with brew bundle, will go through and install everything defined in the Brewfile.
- Wiped your Mac? Brewfile.
- Bought a new Mac? Brewfile.
- New coworker needs a quick jumpstart? Brewfile.
In this repo, you'll find my Brewfile. It isn't finished. It'll never be finished. A Brewfile is a living document reflecting the ever evolving state of your happy little OSX world. While the main purpose of my Brewfile is to ensure all of my Mac's have a consistent set of tools installed, I think we'd all be lying if we said the main point of a Brewfile was to drop it on Github then poke around at others and find neat new tools you'll use once and forget about.
Drop the Brewfile into a directory, enter that directory in a terminal, and type...
brew bundle
Yeah, that's about it. You can also clone this and pull updates every so often if you want. Not that you would, as the whole point is to personalize your own Brewfile with what you want, not what I want, unless what you and I want are the exact same thing, in which case we should be friends.
Fine
https://homebrew-file.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
brew-file will let you manage your Brewfile with more advanced features, such as syncing to cloud storage or Git repositories.
You're likely going to want your own repo in order to take full advantage of this, given that you can have it update your Brewfile as you install packages (and you don't have commit access here...) but it gives you some fun options for keeping things synchronized across systems.