![]() This is useful for the one off app, but what about if you need to install a bunch of apps in one go? There’s actually a bunch of ways to do this, so don’t consider this an exhaustive list. Hit enter, and it should begin downloading and install the app. Installing Firefox from the previous example would be brew install firefox With the APP_NAME_HERE replaced by the app of choice. ![]() The basic command to install an app from the web is brew install APP_NAME_HERE ![]() Once you find the app you want you’ll probably want to install it. You can limit your search to one or the other by adding –casks or –formulae right after the search command such as brew search -casks firefox Rule of thumb, “Casks” are your typical graphical apps apps and “formulae” are primarily terminal utilities. So if you want to see if Firefox is available you’d type in brew search firefoxĪs you can see from the picture, Firefox is available under ‘firefox’, though there are other apps. Of course you’ll need to replace SEARCH_TERM_HERE with the name of the app you’re searching for. To search for an app in the App Store via Homebrew, open your Terminal and type in the command brew search SEARCH_TERM_HERE In order to know what you have available, you’ll need to search for them on the brew.sh homepage or use the search command in your Terminal. Adobe Acrobat Pro and the Creative Cloud app, but not any of the other CC apps like Photoshop, Premiere, etc. For example the Microsoft Office Suite is available, but after install you have to sign into your Office account to license it. Some paid apps are available, but usually ones where you have to install a license or sign in, and even then not all of them. So while Steam is available for download through Brew, many games that are only available in Steam are not. For one, most of the apps available in Brew are apps that are free or have free versions. Upfront you should know that many apps are available to install through Brew, but not every one is available. If you’re looking for a way to install apps from the Mac App Store via the Terminal there technically is a way to do that, but I plan to do that in a separate guide because there’s a little more to it while also being a bit more limited (though not for lack of trying on developers’ part). So I’m going to show you the method for installing apps from web and a way to install a bunch of apps all at once. And there are a lot of apps that you can do install this way including 1Password, Android Studio, Audacity, BetterTouchTool, Bitwarden, Chrome, Firefox, NetBeans, and Steam just to name a handful. It points you to those apps and gives you a method to install them, but you can still go and download those same apps via a different method. I’ve talked about how to install tools and utilities to use in the Terminal, but Brew is a package manager, which means it has many of the benefits of a dedicated app store without having to host or assume the responsibilities of those apps. One of the great things about Brew is being able to install apps and use that to update them too.
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