Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS that allows you to easily install and manage software packages. To install Homebrew on Mac OS, you can use the following steps:
- Open the Terminal application on your Mac.
- Run the following command in the terminal to install Homebrew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/main/install.sh)"
- Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of Homebrew installed by running the command:
brew --version
- To use Homebrew, you can use the
brewcommand to install, update, and manage packages. For example, to install a package such as wget, you can run the command:
brew install wget
- To update all the installed packages, you can run the command:
brew update
- To upgrade all the installed packages to the latest version, you can run the command:
brew upgrade
It is important to note that Homebrew installs packages to /usr/local/Cellar/ and symbolic links to /usr/local/bin, so it does not interfere with the system’s package manager. Additionally, Homebrew provides many options to customize the package installation such as providing a specific version, providing a custom prefix, etc.