Brew bundle setup & tips for TAP Analysts

Introduction

You should be using Brew which is a really good package manager for mainly macOS.

A key feature of Brew is its ability to set up your Mac to a known configuration. It does this a feature called Bundle that uses Brewfiles. As you do development, or experimenting with new apps can break your system, you can easily restore back to a known configuration.

Install Prerequisites

Fake Xcode Installation

touch /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progress;
softwareupdate -i -a
rm /tmp/.com.apple.dt.CommandLineTools.installondemand.in-progress

Install Rossetta 2

softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

Install Brew

Compete details are at Brew but fairly simple to install. Open terminal.app (command-space + "terminal") and paste this command on the command line.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Brew Bundle Install

Now you can install your bundle, run the below command and take a coffee as this may take a bit of time.

brew bundle install