Homebrew: OS X Package Management

Homebrew: OS X Package Management

apt-get Package Manager Overview A package manager is a set of tools that allow users to easily install, upgrade, and remove software packages. Software authors format their projects into packages for different package managers to make it easy to distribute software on a variety of platforms. Package managers free users from needing to custom manage each piece of software they wish to use on their machine. Package managers like dpkg, RPM, and others have enhanced the GNU/Linux development environment for decades and projects like Fink , MacPorts , and Homebrew have sought to do the same for OS X, to bring it out of the package management dark ages. Installation Homebrew requires OS X 10.5+ and the Xcode command line tools. Download the latest *.dmg command line tools for your OS version from Apple Developer Downloads . You may need to search for "command line tools" in the left search box. With any luck, this will be the last time you need to download a *.dmg manually.

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