Homebrew for Mac
Manage the installation process of other open source software.
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Homebrew overview
Homebrew is a command line utility designed to streamline the installation of various libraries and utilities that you might need to run certain applications, but have not been included in your macOS installation by default.
The both application provides you with access to a large collection of packages which you can browse using the command line, or by making use of online resources such as the Braumeister website.
Effortless to install macOS package manager that runs in the Terminal
To deploy Homebrew on your Mac, you can manually download the source code archive and install wherever you like, or you can run the command provided by the development team in Terminal window (will place Homebrew in the /usr/local folder):
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
What's new in version 6.0.11
- Enable more cask metadata migration to JSON for all users
- Skip rewriting Mach-O binaries when delete_rpath changes nothing
- test_bot/formulae: remove generic tests
- Return a shared type instance from type constructors when runtime checking is disabled
- test_bot/formulae: skip portable Ruby tests on macOS if same version
- Test fixes for portable Ruby macOS runners
- test/cask/audit_spec: fix min OS for Intel
- Fix brew outdated --greedy crash on installed casks without a URL
- Revert "Return a shared type instance from type constructors when runtime checking is disabled"
- Fix more test failures
- Add brew vulns command
- Remove dead API methods and move generated_hash! to tests
- Fix donation link
- Test uninstalling casks
- Use RubyMacho 6.0.0
- Test without Sorbet runtime
- Preserve cask container metadata
- cmd/deps: accept --brewfile as an input source
- vulns/scanner: fall back to verbatim head URL for non-forge repos
- dev-cmd/generate-vulns-advisories: OSV advisory export for homebrew-advisory-database
- Keep the current internal package API file on brew cleanup -s
- Show application of file and data patches
- vulns/osv_export: merge into existing records instead of overwriting
- test_bot/formulae: only run subset of brew tests for portable Ruby
- Start bottle downloads before dependency fetches
- download_queue: wake on completed downloads
- Prewarm Bootsnap caches after brew update
- generate-vulns-advisories: derive initial fixed via FormulaVersions
Homebrew for Mac
Free
In English
Version 6.0.11
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