avp / homebrew-cask

A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries

Homebrew-Cask

“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 Google Chrome and Adium.

We do this by providing a friendly Homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.

It’s implemented as a homebrew external command called cask.

Let’s try it!

To start using Homebrew-Cask, you just need Homebrew installed.

$ brew cask install google-chrome
==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
==> Moving App 'Google Chrome.app' to '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'
🍺  google-chrome staged at '/usr/local/Caskroom/google-chrome/latest' (3 files, 288K)

And there we have it. Google Chrome installed with a few quick commands: no clicking, no dragging, no dropping.

$ open /Applications/"Google Chrome.app"

Learn More

• 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

Reporting bugs

Like most pieces of software, Homebrew-Cask has bugs — and we are busy fixing them! If you find a new bug tell us about it, but before you do make sure it really is a bug, by following this guide.

If your issue persists, follow these instructions to the appropriate course of action:

• A cask fails to install
• My problem isn’t listed

Requests

• Start an issue on GitHub following one of these templates:
  • Feature request
  • Cask request

Questions? Wanna chat?

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-cask on Freenode
• Join us on Gitter

License

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license