Package manager for macOS

Brew#

Use brew to install almost everything on macOS. This also handles installing XCode Command Line Tools which lets you use the git which was bundled with the OS (e.g. shouldn’t need to accept XCode license manually).

Installation#

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Caution

Follow the instructions at the end of the script installation! The following is just an example, don’t blindly copy and paste it!

(echo; echo 'eval "\$(${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/brew shellenv)"') >> ${shell_rcfile}
eval "\$(${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/brew shellenv)"

Check that it worked

brew doctor

Useful commands#

Show what you have installed at a top level and excludes their dependencies.

brew leaves

Brewfile#

Easily re-install all of the packages you’ve installed with brew on another machine using Homebrew-file.

Installation#

brew install rcmdnk/file/brew-file

With an existing Brewfile, copy that file to ~/.config/brewfile/Brewfile and run the following command. You may need to wrap the brew command as shown in the fish installation.

brew file install

Devbox#

Installation#

Install devbox

curl -fsSL https://get.jetify.com/devbox | bash

Add the init hook.

~/.config/fish/config.fish

devbox global shellenv --init-hook | source

Restart the terminal. This should initiate installing nix.

Pull the global config from git

devbox global shellenv --init-hook | source