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
Install with a version manager such as asdf, chruby, rbenv, or rvm if you need to switch among Ruby versions (instructions for rbenv are below). See the guide Install Ruby on Mac for details and recommendations. To run the latest Ruby version you need to install it through Homebrew. In this article, we learned how to install the MongoDB community edition on macOS Catalina and higher. We use the Homebrew package manager to install MongoDB binaries and to manage MongoDB service. If you enjoy reading this article, don't forget to share it with your friends and followers. ShawnstationdeMacBook-Pro: shawnstation$ brew -version Homebrew 1.6.9 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision fab7d; last commit 2018-07-07) catalina homebrew Share. To fix this, simply add this one key under the part of the Info.plist of your app. If you didn't bundle your app using Xcode, this key might be missing: If you don't immediately see a result, trying flushing macOS's app cache using this command: (replace MyApp.app with the name/path of your app).
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One issue that typically comes up is an outdated or missing version of Xcode.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
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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
To remove the Home-brew installation and all packages it has installed..
HomeBrew is a great package manager just start installing some apps and explore.!
Special Edition for those that have prior installations
Special Edition: macOS 11.0 Big Sur Development Environment
This is a guide to help those with prior Homebrew mutliple PHP-based installations that are looking to upgrade to the new Hombrew/core PHP setup from the prior Homebrew/php keg which is now deprecated.
With the deprecation of Homebrew/php tap, many of the prior formulaes we used in this guide are no longer available. The cleanest way to migrate from the old brew formulae to the new pecl package approach is to remove everything PHP-related and reinstall with the new instructions.
The first step in this process is to update all the latest packages then upgrade them. This will actually 'migrate' the core PHP packages (which are the only ones supported), but there's a bunch of symlinks utilized that could cause problems down the road, so after upgrading, we'll remove all PHP packages, to provide a fresh start:
You can then double check the current installed PHP packages with:
Now we just need to remove everything:
Don't worry if you don't have all these packages installed, this is just a cumulative list and it will skip over anything that's not installed.
Now we can check to see if anything PHP-related is left:
If you don't see anything you are all good. If something is still left, you can uninstall those individually using the same brew uninstall --force syntax as above.
Now we want to clean out the old configuration options for PHP:
Now you've cleaned up your prior installation, you can jump to the PHP Installation section of Part 1 of the guide.