These are instructions for setting up Homebrew and Cask on Mac OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion). This assumes the base system is installed:
- Mac OS X 18.8.5
- XCode 5.1.1 and agree to license
- XCode comand line tools (most recent applicable version)
- Java JDK 6 (most recent applicable Java 1.6 version from Apple)
Homebrew is now probably the most popular package management sytsem, and Casket extends Homebrew to install full applications, such as Sublime, Chrome, and Firefox.
Both of these, Homebrew and Casket, fetch content off the Internet, and as such the contents of the packages can change at any moment. Therefore, these instructions and results are only applicable as of July 2014.
On a side note, though Homebrew and Casket are very convenient, this throws a monkey wrench in testing. To really perform real tests requires that the components do not change, as this introduces random variables into the system. Having contents that can change on a whim goes against scientific methodology, as the control element is inconsistent. Thus the results cannot be fully trusted and in the worst case scenario can contribute to non-deterministic results.
The existing crusty Ruby on Mac OS X and be bootstrapped by doing the following command.
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"This will output something similar to the following.
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir /usr/local
Password:
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /usr/local
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/chgrp admin /usr/local
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/mkdir /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 185728, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (50947/50947), done.Next we run brew doctor to check out system and make sure everything is in order.
$ brew doctorThe results are vary widely depending on your system. This is the output on a new clean system with a volume formatted as Mac OS X (Journaled, case-sensivity).
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!
Warning: The filesystem on / appears to be case-sensitive.
The default OS X filesystem is case-insensitive. Please report any apparent problems.We use the installed HomeBrew to install Cask.
$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-caskThis will yield the following.
Cloning into '/usr/local/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 46705, done.
remote: Counting objects: 57, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (57/57), done.
remote: Total 46762 (delta 27), reused 6 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (46762/46762), 14.78 MiB | 904.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (28955/28955), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Tapped 1 formula
==> Cloning https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask.git
Cloning into '/Library/Caches/Homebrew/brew-cask--git'...
remote: Counting objects: 1895, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1866/1866), done.
remote: Total 1895 (delta 30), reused 624 (delta 20)
Receiving objects: 100% (1895/1895), 5.01 MiB | 965.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (30/30), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Note: checking out '8db73ff33341f25fe3a44fb82a2b3bc83617e81f'.
You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
changes and commit them, and you can discard any commits you make in this
state without impacting any branches by performing another checkout.
If you want to create a new branch to retain commits you create, you may
do so (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b new_branch_name
==> Checking out tag v0.37.1
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/brew-cask/0.37.1: 1730 files, 6.8M, built in 9 seconds