Package manager for macOS.
brew install <package>Directories created:
Download: ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads
Package Installation (for different versions of same pkg): `/opt/homebrew/Cellar`
Binary: /opt/homebrew/bin/
When you install a package, it is first downloaded followed by building the package i.e. installation & then symlinks the packages's binaries to /opt/homebrew/bin/.
brew uninstall <package>Here, tap & then install
brew tap <user>/<repo>
brew install <package>When tapped, the repository is cloned to /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/<user>/homebrew-<repo>.
Example:
❯ brew tap subspace/homebrew-pulsar
==> Tapping subspace/pulsar
Cloning into '/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/subspace/homebrew-pulsar'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 24, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (24/24), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (20/20), done.
remote: Total 24 (delta 6), reused 17 (delta 3), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (24/24), 4.64 KiB | 4.64 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (6/6), done.
Tapped 1 formula (14 files, 11.5KB).And then install:
❯ brew install pulsar
Warning: Treating pulsar as a formula. For the cask, use homebrew/cask/pulsar
==> Fetching subspace/pulsar/pulsar
==> Downloading https://github.com/subspace/pulsar/releases/download/v0.7.4-alph
Already downloaded: /Users/abhi3700/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d72a4cd25aeb90a5dbb02cad6484e54569073c4beddf33d2f7816fc85ae32812--pulsar-macos-aarch64-v0.7.4-alpha.zip
==> Installing pulsar from subspace/pulsar
🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pulsar/0.7.4-alpha: 3 files, 56.9MB, built in 3 seconds
==> Running `brew cleanup pulsar`...There is a repository that contains the formulae i.e. *.rb file.
There is a file <formula-name>.rb in the repo which is pulled when you install.
To untap (remove) a tapped repository.
brew untap <user>/<repo>Install a GUI app with --cask flag.
Only GUI, not CLI.
brew install --cask <package>