How I use it: `brew`
I install brew
like I guess almost everyone else does: by pasting the command on their website brew.sh
.
I will very rarely run brew doctor
to check the integrity of my installation and packages. If anything weird comes up, I try to fix it; most of the times it's related to something being uninstalled at some point.
I use brew install
and brew install --cask
to install packages and applications. It's usually the first place I look for installing anything on my mac.
I'll also occasionally use brew uninstall
to clean up anything I'm not longer using.
I frequently run brew update && brew upgrade
to update the brew installation itself, and then all packages managed by it.
If I need to backup or even review whatever I have installed with Homebrew, I'll use brew bundle dump -v --all --describe
.