Installing Homebrew on OS X

It’s on the top of the Homebrew homepage. From a Terminal prompt: The command brew install wget is an example of how to use Homebrew to install another application (in this case, wget) after brew is already installed. Historic… Before about 2020, the command given on the Homebrew page was:

Homebrew install specific version of formula?

TLDR: brew install [email protected] See answer below for more details. *(I’ve re-edited my answer to give a more thorough workflow for installing/using older software versions with homebrew. Feel free to add a note if you found the old version better.) Let’s start with the simplest case: 1) Check, whether the version is already installed (but … Read more