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Setting Up a New Macbook Air (… again)

How I’m setting up my computer

I’m going to try some things differently, and I’ll record how this goes. I lost an old computer, which was a huge bummer so:

  1. Turn on Find my Mac.
  2. Upgrade my iCloud storage because I’ve been out of space for months.
  3. Oops, before 1. I downloaded the Yosemite Mac upgrade.
  4. And I also started an xcode download.

(And this is why you get your computer into a unique state only minutes after using it. And we wonder why it is hard to reproduce bugs…)

5. Starting to download Homebrew ( http://brew.sh ) using this method:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

6. Prompted install of xcode command line tools. Waiting for that install.

So the reason I’m starting with Homebrew instead of Chrome as I would usually start is that I’m trying to download and use Homebrew Cask ( http://caskroom.io ), what looks like a promising command line tool for mac apps.

7.

$ brew doctor

Turns out I need to accept the xcode agreement and install git.

8. Accept xcode agreement. After doing that found you could do that in the command line like:

$ sudo xcodebuild -license

9. To document the state of the world at step 9

Jeremys-MacBook-Air:~ jkeesh$ which brew
/usr/local/bin/brew
Jeremys-MacBook-Air:~ jkeesh$ echo $path
Jeremys-MacBook-Air:~ jkeesh$

10. Install git

$ brew install git

type git and it looks like it’s installed

Jeremys-MacBook-Air:~ jkeesh$ git
usage: git [—version] [—help] [-C <path>] [-c name=value]
 [—exec-path[=<path>]] [—html-path] [—man-path] [—info-path]
 [-p|—paginate|—no-pager] [—no-replace-objects] [—bare]
 [—git-dir=<path>] [—work-tree=<path>] [—namespace=<name>]
 <command> [<args>]

11. Install caskroom and hope ( http://caskroom.io )

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

12. Moment of truth. Trying to install chrome

Jeremys-MacBook-Air:~ jkeesh$ brew cask install google-chrome
==> We need to make Caskroom for the first time at /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom
==> We’ll set permissions properly so we won’t need sudo in the future
Password:
==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Symlinking App ‘Google Chrome.app’ to ‘/Users/jkeesh/Applications/Google Chr
==> Generic artifacting Artifact ‘Google Chrome.app’ to ‘/Users/jkeesh/Applicati

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