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macOS users: what have you installed with brew?

16 points by f4n4tiX ↗ HN
You can get a list of all installed formulae that are not dependencies of another installed formula via `brew leaves`

Here are mine: age age-plugin-yubikey bat cmake fd ffmpeg fnm fzf gh git gnu-getopt go jq lazygit lsd neovim pinentry-mac qrencode reattach-to-user-namespace restic ripgrep rustup-init starship tmux tree ykman yt-dlp yubikey-agent zoxide zsh zsh-autosuggestions zsh-completions

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kleer001
I could, but I won't. My mac laptop is 5 years in the closet and covered in a layer of dust. But it'd be a ton of stuff.
adamredwoods
Brew feels slow and does not seem to like older MacBooks, so I've been using MacPorts more often or downloading things on my own.
1123581321
On this computer, asdf bison c-ares cmocka drud/ddev/ddev fd go guile htop imagemagick jj jpeg libedit libiconv libuv libxml2 make nss ocrmypdf php postgresql@14 re2c ripgrep ruby-build smartmontools wireguard-tools zlib, 1password-cli ipatool

I'm not sure the story behind all of those, but I use several of those CLI tools regularly. brew install __ usually gets me what I went when I'm on a Mac and a linux tool is missing when I try to run it.

I'd like brew to handle per-user installations better (you can with a flag, but it'll still have path issues with some installs), but I'm thankful for it overall.

kassovic
The latest for me was Gradle.

autoconf bumpversion cocoapods doxygen ffmpeg gnu-tar gobject-introspection gradle guile llvm make node@10 nvm openapi-generator openjdk@11 openjdk@17 subversion yarn

onlyontheapi
for my personal mac, I've got: cask, cmocka, gh, gifski, gradle, heroku/brew/heroku, jupyterlab, maven, mysql, nghttp2, numpy, openjdk@11, postgresql@14, python@3.10, python@3.9, redis, scala, wget, xclip, zsh-syntax-highlighting
mdaniel
due to its analytics, one can see the number of installs on formulae.brew.sh e.g. https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/awscli but I don't offhand know how to show "most popular across formulae"

I also don't offhand know if those "Build Errors" are their bottle build errors, or it reports all build errors

I'm not ignoring your question, but it's also meaningless to post any such thing on HN since

  $ brew list -1 | wc -l
  682
chatmasta
I try to avoid installing anything with brew, because I can't install a new package without first upgrading all my other packages, which often leads to one of them breaking in not-so-fun ways (e.g. an openssl upgrade breaking my Python installation).
sdflhasjd
Yep, just had some issues with homebrew updating the system to OpenSSL 3 which broke some workflows as OpenSSL 3 can't read Apple Developer certificates...
st3fan
# Do not automatically upgrade anything export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALLED_DEPENDENTS_CHECK=1
chatmasta
Thanks for this. In case anyone finds this in the future, note that after setting this, and running `brew install blah`, it will output "Running `brew update --auto-update`..." and then appear to hang. Just press ctrl+c and it will continue to installation.
SkyPuncher
Basically everything. It’s by far my preferred way to install and manage apps.

It has its criticisms, but it’s easy to use and fast enough for the amount I need to use it.

edude03
Nothing, I’m a nix user. Here’s what I have installed in general though
j1mmie
What great way to do reconnaissance about your own machine so that the hackers don't have to!
kevinherron
New system, not much so far:

kevin@Kevins-MacBook-Pro ~> brew leaves

  fish

  maven

  rename
mediumsmart
ack antiword aspell automake bash bash-completion bison chruby cmake cmake-docs coreutils curl dbus docbook-xsl dos2unix exiftool fetchmail ffmpeg findutils fortune gawk gcc gdbm git global gnu-typist gnupg grep httpd imagemagick jq libffi libgccjit libvterm libxml2 links lynx mailutils mairix make msmtp nano nmap nmh node openssl@1.1 openssl@3.0 orc pipx pkg-config pngcrush procmail qrencode ripgrep rsync ruby-install sevenzip solargraph tern texinfo tmux tree tree-sitter watch wget xml2 yt-dlp zint zlib
cutthegrass2
every piece of software I install, which as of today is 139 packages.
goatking
I prefer AppStore. If the app is not on there, I'll check their website, and download from there. Lastly, I use brew.

The exception is command line tools, those I usually install with brew. (pyenv, ffmpeg, etc)

kingkongjaffa
my brew list command gives:

abseil gmp libunistring p11-kit sqlite

autoconf gnutls libuv pcre2 typescript

bdw-gc guile libyaml pkg-config unbound

brotli icu4c lz4 protobuf wget

c-ares jansson m4 python@3.11 xz

ca-certificates libevent mpdecimal rbenv youtube-dl

cmake libidn2 nettle readline yt-dlp

gdbm libnghttp2 node ruby-build zstd

gettext libtasn1 openssl@1.1 rust

git libtool openssl@3 sbcl

even better I just learned from this thread:

brew leaves gives:

cmake

gdbm

git

gnutls

guile

jansson

protobuf

rbenv

rust

sbcl

typescript

wget

youtube-dl

yt-dlp

mr_o47
My favorite would be modernCSV since I look at CSVs all day

Also I found this cool brew bash function i thought i share this here

brewpackages (){ brew list --formula | xargs -n1 -P8 -I {} \ sh -c "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.[0-9] files, \(.\)).$/{} \1/'" | \ sort -h -r -k2 - | column -t }

This allows you to view how much space each package is taking

euroderf
it seems to be missing a quote somewhere, it gives the bash continuation prompt
mr_o47
brewpackages (){ brew list --formula | xargs -n1 -P8 -I {} \ sh -c "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.[0-9] files, \(.\)).$/{} \1/'" | \ sort -h -r -k2 - | column -t }

Maybe try now

euroderf
Nope, no luck.

But strangely, your comment is rendering with a couple of spans of italics. Here is a paste, with "i" tags and "<\n>" marking the odd rendering I see:

brewpackages (){ brew list --formula | xargs -n1 -P8 -I {} \ sh -c "brew info {} | egrep '[0-9]* files, ' | sed 's/^.<i>[0-9]</i> files, \<\n>(.\<i>))</i>.$/{} \1/'" | \ sort -h -r -k2 - | column -t }

is HN consuming your markup unexpectedly ?

schappim
macOCR - macOCR is a command line app that enables you to turn any text on your screen into text on your clipboard. When you envoke the ocr command, a "screen capture" like cursor is shown. Any text within the bounds will be converted to text.

You can install it w/ brew install schappim/ocr/ocr

[1] https://github.com/schappim/macOCR

AA-BA-94-2A-56
The distance of cask means I install everything with it.

Which is handy if I ever feel like wiping my Mac fresh and running a single command to install everything.