Mac Getting Started with Brew installation software _ installation Tutorials

Mac Getting started using brew to install software

Brew, also known as homebrew, is a package management tool on Mac OS X that can easily install software or uninstall software in a Mac, and it's easy to get a command.

Brew is similar to the Apt-get function of the Ubuntu system

Reading Table of Contents

1. Install Brew
2. Installing software with Brew
3. Uninstalling Software with Brew
4. Using Brew query Software
5. Other Brew commands
   

Install Brew

The official website of Brew: http://brew.sh/A detailed description of the use of Brew on the official website

Installation method: Open Termal in Mac: Enter command:

Ruby-e "$ (curl-fssl https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

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Installing software with Brew

A command is done, like installing Git.

Brew Install Git

Like installing wget.

Brew Install wget

Uninstalling Software with Brew

Uninstall is more convenient.

Brew Uninstall Wget

Using Brew query Software

Sometimes, you do not know the name of the software you install, then you need to search the first, find the package name.

For example, I want to install

Brew search/wge*/

/wge*/is a regular expression that needs to be included in/

Other Brew commands

Brew List lists installed software

Brew Update Updates Brew

Brew Home Opens the official web site for brew in a browser

Brew Info Displays software information

Brew Deps Show Package dependencies

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