#HOMEBREW FOR MAC USERS GUIDE INSTALL#

However do yourself a favour and use the installer to install to the default prefix.

/sw and /opt/local because build scripts get confused when Homebrew is there instead of Fink or MacPorts, respectively.

/tmp subdirectories because Homebrew gets upset.

Homebrew itself can handle spaces, but many build scripts cannot.

Directories with names that contain spaces.

Just extract (or git clone) Homebrew wherever you want.

Alternative Installs Linux or Windows 10 Subsystem for LinuxĬheck out the Homebrew on Linux installation documentation. The default Git remote will be used if the corresponding environment variable is unset. You can use geolocalized Git mirrors to speed up Homebrew’s installation and brew update by setting HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE and/or HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE in your shell environment with this script:Įxport HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE = '.' # put your Git mirror of Homebrew/brew here export HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE = '.' # put your Git mirror of Homebrew/homebrew-core here The Bourne-again shell for installation (i.e.Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode (from xcode-select -install or.A 64-bit Intel CPU or Apple Silicon CPU 1.You have to confirm everything it will do before it starts. It tells you exactly what it will do before it does it too. It is a careful script it can be run even if you have stuff installed in the preferred prefix already. This script installs Homebrew to its preferred prefix ( /usr/local for macOS Intel, /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon and /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew for Linux) so that you don’t need sudo when you brew install.

Instructions for a supported install of Homebrew are on the homepage.

Homebrew for mac users guide