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• homebrew
• Jonathan Haack
• Haack's Networking
• netcmnd@jonathanhaack.com

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Homebrew Package Management Tutorial - refer to for sanity on macOS systems.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew update
brew doctor
brew cleanup
brew upgrade
brew cask install <packagename>
brew install caskroom/cask/<packagename>
git -C "$(brew --repo homebrew/core)" fetch --unshallow

Uninstall Homebrew

Download script from GitHub https://gist.github.com/SteveBenner/11254428

Cask Location, followed by location of currently installed packages …

/Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask/Casks
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/local/Cellar
/Volumes/Macintosh HD/opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom

Or, run this command to see all installed packages in a txt file in downloads.

brew list > ~/Downloads/brews.txt

Braumeister has a search engine of Homebrew packages - http://braumeister.org/

Common packages worth installing

• tree
• webkit2png
• graphicsmagick
• git
• python
• python3
• watch
• wget
• automake
• autoconf
• htop
• jpegoptim
• imagemagick
• fish (fish shell)
• xquartz
• Homebrew cask
• ack (like grep)
• git
• bash-completion
• bash completion script
• colordiff
• ffmpeg
• htop
• imagemagick
• gawk
• gnu-sed
• cowsay
• lftp
• wget
• axel
• tree
• unrar
• rlwrap
• readline wrap
• tig
• git (command line interface)
• youtube-dl
• lynx (web browser)
• memcached (for caching on web server)
• Alpine (new version of Pine)
• mutt
• vi
• emacs
• nano
• python (add 3 for v.3)
• pip
• virtualenv
• ruby
• ruby-build (test versions)
• wget
• nmap
• vlc
• gnuplot
• tcpdump
• gnutils
• coreutils
• rsync
• rsnapshot
• binutils
• diffutils
• findutils
• wireless-tools
• screen
• gcc
• openssh
• ssh-copy-id

#Path should look like

/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbinMore GNU commands, but duplicate ones
/sbin

If you use gnutils or coreutils a lot:

PATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin:$PATH"
MANPATH="/usr/local/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman:$MANPATH"

GNU/Linux commands and how to make default

brew tap homebrew/dupes [heals the dupe issue for gnutils]
brew install ed --default-names
brew install findutils --with-default-names
brew install gnu-indent --with-default-names
brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names
brew install gnu-tar --with-default-names
brew install gnu-which --with-default-names
brew install grep --with-default-names
brew install wdiff --with-gettext
        

Homebrew permissions - only if it gets hosed. Otherwise, let homebrew installer or brew doctor fix:

sudo chmod -R +a "$USER allow delete,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeextattr,readsecurity,writesecurity,chown,list,search,add_file,add_subdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directory_inherit" .
sudo chown -R root:wheel /usr/local
sudo chmod -R -N /usr/local

To install alternative repositories for later installation, such as:

brew install homebrew/<homebrew-binary>/<packagename>
brew tap Homebrew/<homebrew-binary> 

Homebrew/homebrew-apache
Homebrew/homebrew-binary
Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard
Homebrew/homebrew-completions
Homebrew/homebrew-dupes
Homebrew/homebrew-games
Homebrew/homebrew-headonly
Homebrew/homebrew-python
Homebrew/homebrew-science
Homebrew/homebrew-versions
davidchall/homebrew-hep
josegonzalez/homebrew-php 

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