Install Brew On Mac Catalina

Posted on 16-09-2021 by admin

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The easiest way to install a number of Unix style applications and open source software onto macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave and earlier Sierra OS versions is via a package manager, unfortunately, macOS Big Sur doesn’t come with one, but fortunately, some good folks care, they come in the form of Homebrew.

The install of Homebrew also works on macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, (High)Sierra, El Capitan, and Yosemite, so macOS 10.10 – 10.14

Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and Fink but Homebrew is the newest and most popular of the trio.

Install Homebrew

To download install Homebrew run the install script on the command line as below and let the script do its thing:

If you don’t have Apples Xcode Command Line Tools installed it will alert you to that it will install it and carry on with the Homebrew installation and download the Command Line Tools you will need to enter your admin password at some point.

Then Homebrew is installed.
After this Homebrew is installed and ready to install other apps.

To get started run brew help can give some command example usage.

To check for any issues with the Homebrew install run:

One issue that typically comes up is an outdated or missing version of Xcode.

For the latest macOS, brew doctor will warn that the Homebrew install won’t be 100% if Xcode is not up to date, so update Xcode from the App Store.

To search for an application:

To install

To list all apps installed by Homebrew

To remove an installed application

To update Homebrew itself

To see what packages are out of date but not to upgrade them

To see what upgrade packages all or singular

To hold a package at a certain version

To release a package from a certain version

To see what else you can do

Where does Homebrew install stuff …. in the Cellar

Where the brew lives.

You can see your Homebrew configuration by running

The output should be similar to …

All installations via Homebrew are filed independently in the filing system in /usr/local/Cellar and linked into /usr/local/bin which is a directory which allows you to run these commands and apps as if part of the regular operating system.

This directory is also out of the SIP bounds so there should be no authentication macOS error dialog boxes.

Remove Home-brew and all packages

Install Homebrew On Macos Catalina

To remove the Home-brew installation and all packages it has installed..