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[Mac OS] 'Homebrew' - The Missing Package Manager

After upgrading to Mavericks(10.9), I can't incorporate with MacPort. Port itself seemed to have no problems, but I faced plenty of errors while updating packages already installed by MacPort. In words, 'port upgrade outdated' doesn't end up with completion. So does Fink. Therefore, I have tried to search on web, so that I find other alternatives.



My searching process ended up with coming across Homebrew

Rather than MacPort and Fink, I think developers in Homebrew are working on their community quite well. The reasons I changed my pkg manager to Homebrew are: 1) developers in Octave project are primarily using it. 2) Homebrew kindly supports and automatically downloads the necessary patches for complete compilation of Octave by itself 3) MacPort and Fink doesn't work on my system

Some reference sites are as follow:

Install /  Wiki / Troubleshooting 

Hope Homebrew keeps staying fine.

cf) 'Homebrew' is the name of the computer club in Silicon Valley (or a beer).

Added) Useful Command with brew

[install] SHELL>brew install pkg_name

[get information of pkg] SHELL>brew info pkg_name