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From the homebrew FAQ ( https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ ) Can I install my own stuff to /usr/local? Yes, brew is designed to not get in your way so you can use it how you like. Install your own stuff, but be aware that if you…

comment by lloeki · 2012-09-12 · in Using /usr/local

…caveat for how to set up z for zsh were wrong in brew. I just submitted a pull request to fix this. https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/14621

comment by crcastle · 2012-09-01 · in Z - Jump to directories that you actually use.

…have been able to re-render nigh unto instantaneously as it would have been in the page cache. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula

comment by saurik · 2012-08-14 · in Web vs. iOS. Choppy vs. smooth. Free vs. paying.

It looks like elinks is available in Homebrew[1], so the only added step is brew install elinks [1]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by msbarnett · 2012-08-03 · in Learn random facts while pulling code changes

…need this to compile open source software on your Mac 2. Homebrew - Awesome Mac package manager: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew 3. iTerm2 - Replacement for Mac terminal: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home 4. zsh - replacement for bash…

comment by dougireton · 2012-07-25 · in Ask HN: For a first-time Apple owner, what development tools do you recommend?

Updated Homebrew's Zsh formula for v5, give it a +1 if you want to see it updated faster: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/13543

comment by travisjeffery · 2012-07-23 · in Zsh 5.0 released

…in that case bump the vote count on those apps!) - First thing you should do: Install Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ - IRC: Colloquy - http://colloquy.info - Editor: Sublime Text 2 - http://www.sublimetext.com/2 - Launcher:…

comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-06-18 · in Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about?

Try out ZSH if you want to try something slightly different to Bash Package Manager: Homebrew - https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew Terminal/Emulator: iTerm2 - http://www.iterm2.com/ Vim running in iTerm2 via Homebrew Chat Client: Adium -…

comment by haar · 2012-06-17 · in Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about?

…on Github, brew-tap it [1], and if you think other people could use it, open a pull request. [1]: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Homebrew-0.9

comment by quarterto · 2012-05-20 · in Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package

…("We generally frown on authors submitting their own work unless it is suitably notable." [1]). [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula

comment by mjschultz · 2012-05-14 · in Show HN: c

…are going to do constantly while browsing files, and is something that normally is instantaneous. https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula The reason for this is that the mechanism GitHub is using to supposedly speed up…

comment by saurik · 2012-05-02 · in Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub

At least the installation script adds some aliases to .bashrc. https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...

comment by zellux · 2012-04-19 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal

…grc command aliases commands like 'ping' to a modified command that processes the output[1]. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...

comment by moonboots · 2012-04-18 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal

Those are supplied if you source the aliases that ship with the Homebrew formula: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/7bbe7e9311ce95a141bf5f...

comment by netherland · 2012-04-18 · in Grc - it's like stylesheets for your terminal

> sudo brew install No sudo. From https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ : > Why does Homebrew say sudo is bad? > tl;dr Sudo is dangerous, and you installed TextMate.app without sudo anyway. > Homebrew is designed to work without using…

comment by philwelch · 2012-04-15 · in Show HN: Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X

…will improve still. About 70% on this topic recommended MacBooks. Last year, it'd been 50%. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-04-01 · in Ask HN: What is the best laptop on the market for programming right now?

…as I didn't shout very loudly people don't realise that it exists. For example Qt has a bottle: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula... The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and…

comment by mikemcquaid · 2012-02-17 · in Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

…software[1] (anything that expects `gcc` to be ordinary gcc stands a chance of breaking anyway) [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Acceptable-Formula

comment by ConstantineXVI · 2012-02-16 · in Xcode, GCC, and Homebrew

…as I didn't shout very loudly people don't realise that it exists. For example Qt has a bottle: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula... The reason we aren't doing this for more packages is basically people power and…

comment by mikemcquaid · 2012-02-13 · in Back on Linux (after one year of Apple and OS X)

…you can always "alias top='top -o cpu'" in your .aliases. [1] http://www.macports.org/ports.php [2] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew [3] http://www.finkproject.org/

comment by pooriaazimi · 2012-02-04 · in How I Learned to Program

…as a result of upgrading from an older version of Xcode. More information is in the Homebrew issue: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6852

comment by danieldk · 2012-02-03 · in My Recent Development Stack: OS X Tools

…to do this is with homebrew[1]: brew install gawk [1] If you don't know about homebrew, check out https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew . It's a package manager for Mac.

comment by masnick · 2011-10-31 · in Aligning your Git logs

Homebrew also updated: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commit/ae9b146fb64cc2db914b... Just brew update and upgrade.

comment by kenips · 2011-10-30 · in Ruby 1.9.3 released

…up the permissions it's setup. there's a part in their faq about why they believe sudo is bad https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/FAQ

comment by lparry · 2011-10-26 · in GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)

…4.2.1 It's a rather important change to GCC on mac, it even broke `brew install mysql` for awhile: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6277 Some great hackers found out it was linking to Apple's internal pthread library. Code-softly…

comment by RobertLowe · 2011-08-10 · in 2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment

…in the background while you do something else. See here for stuff you can install with one command: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula...

comment by evilduck · 2011-08-08 · in Return of the Mac (2005)

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"My disgust at Google's ineptitude here knows NO bounds"

story by abraham · 2011-08-06 · 0 comments

Since I have your attention temporarily, I figure you should also know about this: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/6732 I had errors when I ran `brew update`. Looks like it might hit most people who have installed it recently, so…

comment by Groxx · 2011-07-31 · in Quick Python/Developer tips for OSX Lion

…just a Ruby project in git so all the packages (or formulas) are just rb files inside the project: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula They usually only provide the most recent stable version of each project but…

comment by daviddavis · 2011-07-25 · in MacPorts 2.0 with Lion support now available

There are already two pull requests on Homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pulls

comment by benatkin · 2011-07-20 · in Node v0.4.10 released

…points to http://rack.rubyforge.org/ https://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri => http://nokogiri.org/ https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew => http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ https://github.com/joyent/node => http://nodejs.org/ etc, etc. It also…

comment by stock_toaster · 2011-07-15 · in Code.Google.com now supports git

…1. install homebrew, 2. type `homebrew edit mysql' 3. change 5.5.10 to 5.5.12 4. brew install mysql https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula...

comment by zbowling · 2011-05-10 · in MySQL 5.5.12 for macports, stay bleeding edge.

…and $HOME/brew/sbin to my $PATH. If you want it in /usr/local, see the instructions at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation , but in the "curl" line, replace their URL with the one you picked above. You should now be able to…

comment by daxelrod · 2011-05-02 · in Vico Editor (Mac text editor)

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Bootstrapping CC (for OSX, using Homebrew)

story by telemachos · 2011-03-11 · 26 comments

…There are a few other reasons they specifically opted for /usr/local instead of other paths here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation

comment by wfarr · 2011-01-30 · in Pianobar command-line Pandora client

$ sudo brew Not really necessary - https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation#sudo

comment by m0shen · 2011-01-17 · in I Can Crack Your App With Just A Shell (And How To Stop Me)

…me. Maybe you should give it another shot. Homebrew is the cool kid on the block now, though: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by steveklabnik · 2011-01-07 · in Finally, Linux on My Desktop

Homebrew is another popular alternative to MacPorts that you may be interested in looking at: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by tkaemming · 2010-12-25 · in Ask HN: Just got a Mac, what do I need to know?

…get ssh-copy-id through homebrew. (And if you're on OS X and not using homebrew, go install it now: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew )

comment by jackowayed · 2010-11-24 · in SSH Commands / Tricks

http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew is my project. IMO anyone who is afraid of forking is actually just afraid of losing control. It's much easier now for people to do a better job than you. You have to work harder in order to keep your kudos.…

comment by mxcl · 2010-11-22 · in Fear of forking

I used macports as well but switched to homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by klaut · 2010-11-08 · in Ask HN: Do you use a package manager in OSX? If so, which?

…delibar.app for managing delicious and pinboard accounts http://www.delibarapp.com/ brew! https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew Charles.app for misc HTTP lurking and easily repeating HTTP posts (naughty confession: used it to opt-out of AmEx…

comment by PStamatiou · 2010-11-08 · in Ask HN: What do you use?

…the Scheme side. There's also Nu[2], which lets you do Cocoa programming in a Lispish language. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew [2] http://programming.nu/index

comment by msbarnett · 2010-11-05 · in Book review: Land of Lisp

FYI, the Homebrew formula to install CLISP on Mac OS X is at http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/2707 If the formula works well, please comment there and suggest the authors accept my pull request. (If not, I ll be very happy to help.)

comment by tianyicui · 2010-10-27 · in Land of Lisp is finally out...and has a music video.

…postgresql), although it's probably worth noting that I installed them all through Homebrew ( http://www.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/ ).

comment by tkaemming · 2010-10-13 · in Ask HN: Best Developer Linux Laptop?

…ace up it's sleeve is Homebrew[1]. Definitely the easiest package management system anywhere. [1]: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by bravo_sierra · 2010-10-02 · in Thank you, Ubuntu

…with web-based services for everything else). I would definitely miss things like Homebrew though: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

comment by jarin · 2010-09-22 · in Ask HN: Would you work at a startup that requires you to use Linux?

Have you checked out homebrew? Similar to macports/fink except much, much better, available here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew In particular, their recipe for zsh compilation might help you even if you don't want to install brew itself:…

comment by ptomato · 2010-09-07 · in Oh My zsh

I'd recommend brew over macports any day of the week. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew much faster and much more momentum

comment by iamclovin · 2010-08-20 · in Ask HN: What's your Mac/OSX web development software set-up?

…itself back over time. Homebrew has 2.6.5 in its main branch, and 2.7 in a fork. See the notes here: http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/... I've tried Fink, MacPorts, Rudix and Homebrew. Homebrew isn't perfect, but…

comment by telemachos · 2010-07-05 · in Python 2.7 released