How to install homebrew on MacOS

What is HomeBrew

Homebrew is the missing package manager for macOS. You can use Homebrew to install command line packages on a Mac, provided someone has written a formulae, which is a simple Ruby script that walks through the process for installing all the little bits required for a piece of software.

Installing HomeBrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Once the installation has finished, execute the following command to check your HomeBrew version.

brew --version

How to install a package

brew install wget

Updating HomeBrew

New versions of Homebrew come out frequently, so make sure you update it before updating any of the other software components that you’ve installed using Homebrew.

brew update

Uninstalling HomeBrew

To uninstall Homebrew, execute the command below in a terminal prompt.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"