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1. Setup
2. Commands

Setup

This setup install homebrew in user directories, which is safer to mess with. The downside is larger install times since it has to build packages from source.

1) Git-clone it into the ~/homebrew directory:

git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew ~/homebrew

2) Make sure to include the bin/ and sbin/ directories in $PATH, by adding this to ~/.bash_profile:

PATH="$HOME/homebrew/bin:$HOME/homebrew/sbin:$PATH"'

3) Update

brew update

Commands

Check where a library is installed:

Example, boost library:

brew --prefix boost