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It's a package manager. The second header on the main page: What Does Homebrew Do? Homebrew installs the command-line tools and applications you need across
by mcsniff 19d ago
It's a package manager.
The second header on the main page:
What Does Homebrew Do?
Homebrew installs the command-line tools and applications you need across macOS, Linux and WSL.
- assimpleaspossi 19d agoThat doesn't make sense. Why do I need Homebrew to install the command line tools of macOS on macOS? Doesn't macOS already have them installed? Same for Linux, etc.
- atombender 19d agoReplace "need" with "want" and it might make more sense? Homebrew is the Mac equivalent of APT, Pacman, RPM, BSD ports, etc. It's a fairly traditional package manager for software that doesn't come with macOS. "brew install postgresql" installs Postgres into /opt/homebrew, for example.
- assimpleaspossi 19d agoSo how does one install postgresql on a Mac?
- fetzu 19d agohttps://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/ https://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/
- atombender 19d ago"brew install postgresql", unless you meant without Homebrew, in which case you could download the sources manually and compile with "make".