Homebrew complements macOS (or your Linux system). Install your RubyGems with gem and their dependencies with brew. “To install, drag this icon” no more. Homebrew Cask installs macOS apps, fonts and plugins and other non-open source software. $ brew install -cask firefox. Making a cask is as simple as creating a formula. Oct 01, 2015 Here is how you can fix the permission issues with Homebrew in Mac OS X El Capitan: If you had created the /usr/local directory already, then run this command in terminal: sudo chown $(whoami):admin /usr/local && sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local.

1. Homebrew El Capitan 2
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Table of Contents

• First applications
• system-level configuration
• homebrew
• ssh

I had enough issues after updating to El Capitan (the inability to save mywifi password in the system keychain was the tipping point) that Idecided to perform a clean install. Here are some notes.

First applications

Developer tools

Pretty much the first thing any mac needs is the command line tools. This can be done from the command line:

X11

Download and install Xquartz:

Note for next time: might be worth trying to use homebrew.

X11 key bindings so that the option key is used for Meta..

iTerm2

Update a few settings.

Preferences –> Profiles –> Keys and do these things:

• select 'Left/right option key acts as': +Esc
• + –> Keyboard shortcut 'OPT+<left arrow>': Send Escape sequence 'b'
• + –> Keyboard shortcut 'OPT+<right arrow>': Send Escape sequence 'f'

Default appearance:

• Preferences –> Profiles –> Colors –> Load Presets –> Light Background
• Preferences –> Profiles –> Text –> Change Font –> 14 point

Others

Homebrew El Capitan 2

• Dropbox
• SizeUp - http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/ (license in Dropbox/software_licenses)
• MacTex - download from http://tug.org/mactex/http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.pkg
• HipChat client
• Chrome
• Dash 2 (App store)

UW only

• Sophos antivirus: https://softy.cac.washington.edu/sophos/for-staff/
• Junos Pulse (SSL VPN): https://networks.uwmedicine.org/content/sslvpn-frequently-asked-questions-14

system-level configuration

turn off spelling autocorrect

System Preferences –> Language & Text –> Text tab –> unselect 'Correct spelling automatically'

turn off spaces key shortcuts

System Preferences –> Keyboard –> Keyboard Shortcuts –> unselect C+{<-,->}

homebrew

Note that El Capitan introduced System Integrity Protection (SIP), which may need to be temporarily disabled during homebrew installation. See https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/El_Capitan_and_Homebrew.md

If it becomes necessary to fix permissions:

homebrew cask

Command line installer for desktop applications. See https://caskroom.github.io

Install some applications

homebrew API token

Apparently lots of requests to GutHub via homebrew can hit a rate limit. There's a higher limit if you create an API token. See https://gist.github.com/christopheranderton/8644743

Here's the url for the token creation dialog:

Make sure that all 'scopes' are unchecked. Once you generate the token, add to your shell profile:

zsh

Install zsh with Homebrew above

Change shell to zsh

zsh init files are in Dropbox/zsh

ssh

After installing homebrew's openssh on El Capitan, ssh-agent no longerseemed to work (in the sense that after using ssh-add to cache apassphrase, I still got a system prompt when trying to ssh). Thisseemed to be fixed by the instructions I found at the url below (myversion is functionally the same but uses PlistBuddy to edit theplist):

update /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist

This should change the original value of ProgramArguments:

to

Now restart the service

create $ZSH_INITDIR/start_ssh_agent.zsh

(either as a file sourced from .zshrc, or as a code block in a login script)

git

emacs

Install emacs24 binary from http://emacsformacosx.com/

Check out my .emacs.d

python

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Use homebrew - seehttps://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Homebrew-and-Python.md

Run brew info python for required and optional dependencies(installed above).

Install some python packages using homebrew - these are time consuming to install otherwise.

Install some other packages to the system using pip.

For elpy:

ansible

Others

R

Really doubling down on homebrew this time around:

mail

sshfs

Provided by the project http://osxfuse.github.io/ - the links beloware for binaries provided as installers.

wkhtmltopdf

Now create an alias:

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