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It will show you where to find firefox, and allows you to install it by typing: brew cask install firefox To find your software, type: brew search firefox This list has become extensive and fluid over the years, but in my installation consists of alfred Third step, installing useful homebrew packages The difference between brew / homebrew is easy, ‘brew’ is only used for open source, free to use software, where homebrew also allows closed source applications to be installed, without the whole hassle of finding the software through other ways. (You can copy the entire scripts above if you’d like, they will work, normally. #and phive itself, The PHAR Installation and Verification Environment Some additional packages related to my setup: #gpg for installing phive #mas for installing Mac App store packages instantly #dockutil for cleaning up my doc from a fresh install

#cask fonts for a big repository of fonts used later Of all packages available, I currently use five: #cask for managing bigger applications

Second step, installing useful brew packages. From that moment on, the command brew will work in your terminal. I’m being honest in not completely knowing what this command does, but it installs a lot of stuff including the brew package manager. On you can find a quick installer on the top /bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL )” I’m keeping a list of all my application and utilities that brew supports close to me, so I can always get going. In short, use (home)brew to install applications directly onto your mac without any process of Google, click to download, getting the wrong link, finding an outdated version or forgetting what the program was again. In case you’re interested, type softwareupdate -help to look at all the other available flags.

The -ia part is as it’s called a ‘parameter’ or ‘flag’, in this case asking for the installation (the i part) of all (the a part) the available updates.

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The sudo part asks your computer to use the softwareupdate command with more rights, meaning it allows you to install Mac OS updates as an administrator.

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You know the ‘software upgrade’ feature to update your OS, you can do that from the terminal too.

Use spotlight (CMD+space) to find the terminal application and open it. Now you’ve booted into your fresh clean OS, please make sure that you always update the OS first before continuing with the rest.

Install the OS new without relying on an internet connection through recovery.

Delete the contents of the original harddrive (make a Time Machine backup up front!).

For that I create a boot drive (A USB Drive works fine) using Apple’s createinstallmedia command you can find here I assume we start from square one, meaning an empty device, nothing installed. It can be a daunting environment at first, but once you get the hang of it, a lot faster than your regular clicky clicky mouse setup! Getting started with a new installation Please be aware that a lot of this contains the terminal. To make that process simple, over the years I’ve developed a bit of a flow to get to where I want to be, setting up my machine and installing software. Or I screwed up – again, in the terminal or otherwise. Or, worse, setting up the machine again once in a while, just so it feels more neat, or if Apple decides to throw in a new update. There’s one thing I love most of a new job, and one thing I don’t like at all – getting a new machine.