“To install, drag this icon…” no more!
Homebrew-Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to the installation and management of GUI macOS applications such as Atom and Google Chrome.
We do this by providing a friendly Homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
To start using Homebrew-Cask, you just need Homebrew installed.
Slower, now:
$ brew cask install atom
==> Satisfying dependencies
complete
==> Downloading https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/download/v1.8.0/atom-mac.zip
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Verifying checksum for Cask atom
==> Moving App 'Atom.app' to '/Applications/Atom.app'
==> Symlinking Binary 'apm' to '/usr/local/bin/apm'
==> Symlinking Binary 'atom.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/atom'
🍺 atom was successfully installed!
And there we have it. Atom installed with one quick command: no clicking, no dragging, no dropping.
- Find basic documentation on using Homebrew-Cask in USAGE.md
- Want to contribute a Cask? Awesome! See CONTRIBUTING.md
- Want to hack on our code? Also awesome! See hacking.md
- More project-related details and discussion are available in the documentation
If you ignore this guide, your issue may be closed without review.
Before reporting a bug, run brew update-reset && brew update and try your command again. This will ensure the problem isn’t an outdated setup on your side. Note this command is a fix-all that will reset the state of all your taps, so if you have changes on those that you want to keep, deal w
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If your issue persists, search for it before opening a new one. If you find an open issue and have any new information not reported in the original, please add your insights. If you find a closed issue, try the solutions there.
If the issue is still not solved, see the guides for common problems:
- A cask fails to install:
uninstallwrongly reports cask as not installedError: Unknown command: caskerror- My problem isn’t listed
- Cask requests will be automatically closed. If you want a cask added, submit a pull request.
- For a feature request, use this template
We’re really rather friendly! Here are the best places to talk about the project:
- If none of the templates above is appropriate, open an issue.
- Join us (and caskbot) on IRC at
#homebrew-caskon Freenode - Join us on Gitter
Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license