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The install of Homebrew also works on macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, (High)Sierra, El Capitan, and Yosemite, so macOS 10.10 –
10.14
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 prompt you to install to carry on with the Homebrew installation and
download the Command Line Tools.
To get started run brew help can give some command example usage.
brew help
For the latest Catalina, 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.
brew search
To install
brew list
brew update
To see what packages are out of date but not to upgrade them
brew outdated
brew update
man brew
/usr/local/Cellar/
brew config
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.