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System for installing command-line Unix applications and tools on OS X. Free and open-source.

Homebrew is a free and open-source package-manager for OS X, similar to MacPorts and Fink. See brew.sh.

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How do I install "R" on macOS using homebrew?

How do I install "R" on macOS? Ideally using Homebrew? There seems to be very little information online.
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Is there a quick way to relink my homebrew kegs?

I just upgraded my MacBook Air to Mavericks. The process appears to have removed almost all of the symlinks that homebrew put in /usr/local/bin. As I notice things missing then I relink them via brew unlink && brew link (although the…
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Where does homebrew log?

Does homebrew keep logs, and if so where? I did a brew update which broke python support in macvim, and now I can't even get macvim to build. I'm hoping that there are some clues in the log.
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Is there any way to upgrade brew cask

Is there any way to upgrade all brew casks? Something like brew cask upgrade?
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How to download the Command Line Tools for Xcode without the Downloads for Developers webpage?

I'm trying to install the Command Line Tools for Xcode so that I can use homebrew to install some packages I need for some rudimentary programming exercises; I would rather not install the entirety of Xcode (again) as it's pretty bulky for something…
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What does "brew --HEAD" mean?

I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really does, when to use it, why some packages have a…
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How can I install all brew packages listed in a text file?

Does Homebrew offer anything similar to pip's pip install -r requirements.txt feature? I have a new MacBook Pro arriving today, so one of the first tasks will be to migrate my brew installations. I've already performed a brew list > brew.txt…
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Homebrew, list all packages which are no dependency of other installed packages

There is the awesome vanilla list: $ brew list | cat [...] libevent [...] net-snmp [...] openssl [email protected] [...] Let's say I want to check which packages can I remove because I no longer need. I would need a way to forge such list, because if I…
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How do I give options to Homebrew install

Is it possible to give options to a Homebrew installation package from the command line, something like this (which does not seem to work): brew install tesseract --all-languages Or do you have to use brew edit tesseract and actually edit your…
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is it possible to override the legacy app when install using brew

I am using this command to install app in macOS Monterey(the apple M1 pro chip), but facing a problem like this: ➜ ~ brew install --cask dbeaver-community ==> Downloading https://dbeaver.io/files/21.3.2/dbeaver-ce-21.3.2-macos-aarch64.dmg Already…
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List all homebrew packages explicitly installed by the user (without deps)

Is there a way to list all the homebrew packages explicitly installed by the user (they they installed directly using brew install)? Note brew leaves doesn't do this. Over time formula can change change their dependencies leaving orphaned leaves…
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Determine flags that were given for packages installed with homebrew

Is there a way to check what flags were given when a package was installed with homebrew? For example, the emacs formula has an absurd number of flags. If I did brew install emacs --with-glib --with-librsvg I would like to later determine that for…
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Way to determine most popular Homebrew packages?

Is there a way to determine which Homebrew packages have been installed the most times, either in the recent past or all-time? It would make it easier to determine which formulae are the most useful, and to discover new software I may not have heard…
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Show installation date of packages installed with Homebrew?

Homebrew shows me all packages that I have installed with brew leaves. However, it doesn't show me when was a package been installed. Is it possible to make Homebrew show the installation date of packages?
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How to install cURL on macOS with Homebrew?

How can I get the newest version of cURL instead of the old 7.24 that Apple provides? user:~ kevinsimper$ curl --version curl 7.31.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.4.0) libcurl/7.31.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8x zlib/1.2.5 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https…
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