![]() ![]() Doing this will depend on what you’ve been up to with your Mac. Homebrew installs under /usr/local and I wanted it to be nice and clean. Since Apple does not touch /usr/local I cleaned that out too, since anything in there on my Mac would have been installed by MacPorts. In brief, this script changes permissions on various directories, downloads the Homebrew install files and installs them under /usr/localīefore I ran this install, I blew away my MacPorts installation using these instructions, which suggests the following… sudo port -f uninstall installed sudo rm -rf \ /opt/local \ /Applications/DarwinPorts \ /Applications/MacPorts \ /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \ /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \ /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \ /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \ /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \ /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \ ~/.macports If you are unsure or just curious and can read ruby code, then you can see this script here. This will download the “go” ruby script and execute it in one go. ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL /mxcl/homebrew/go)" You can find Homebrew on gitub and you can find the recommended installation instructions there which are as follows. ![]() I’ve found it quite simple to use and have not turned back since I blew away my MacPorts. I thought I should mention the very easy Homebrew package installer for Mac OS X. ![]()
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