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By Abhishek Ghosh July 11, 2014 9:26 am Updated on July 11, 2014

Give Homebrew a Graphical Interface With CakeBrew

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CakeBrew is a nice free software for managing packages of HomeBrew Package Manager from a Graphical User Interface (GUI). We have discussed about Package Manager, iTerm2, Homebrew and ZSH Installation on OS X, Homebrew Package Manager and OSX and offered our readers Homebrew Handy Guide. Like we have written in the article Advanced Packaging Tool (apt) and aptitude, any package manager can have a GUI or TUI, apart from the CLI.

Not all are used with CLI and might need a GUI tool to manage the installed packages. CakeBrew has its own webpage :

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https://www.cakebrew.com/

 

Give Homebrew a Graphical Interface With CakeBrew

 

So, download the dmg image, it might get downloaded with .man extension, in that case, hit the return key after selecting the file, move the cursor position and rename the extension to .dmg. After installation launch it :

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Give Homebrew a Graphical Interface With CakeBrew

Quite easy work to install.

 

Homebrew, CakeBrew and Oh-My-SH

 

There is a video to show the features :

Run :

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brew doctor

It is almost obvious that you’ll get kind of this error :

Consider setting your PATH so that /usr/local/bin
occurs before /usr/bin.

To fix, Open your zshrc file :

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nano ~/.zshrc

We are taking that you have no other complicated profile file. After making the suggested changes; reload your environment and run brew doctor again :

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source ~/.zshrc
#
brew doctor

It should work. The only problem can happen if you have git or some components installed on /usr/local/share/ and try to run brew link like brew link git. In these cases, you need to open the Terminal App and chmod properly to make them writable with proper ownership, as the things are owned by UNIX wheel group it cannot be changed by default :

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# from terminal app
# take that git-core is creating problem
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/git-core/*

However, it will not solve the problem. Copy the full path ( /usr/local/share/ ) and open it in Finder by right click, and selecting Go to Folder option. Open a new Tab ( command + T on OS X 10.9) and copy the whole folder of git-core to Desktop. Delete the original git-core from /usr/local/share/. You have to create the directories yourself from GUI on Desktop, right click, open Info window option, change the permission to both “read and write” of all the directories, drag and drop the files inside this new git-core folder and move to /usr/local/share/; then if you run :

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brew link --overwrite git

It will work fine. If you can link without doing so much work, you need to fix the file permissions of your installation. Yes, we could chown instead of so much work, but UNIX wheel group will not allow. You are sudoer, but still can not do all the works. If, suppose :

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sudo chown yourusername:admin -R /usr/local/share/git-core

does not throw error, you definitely or some app definitely has changed the default ownership. You can view this kind of gist, they perform more than excess work. We should fix only one directory’s path related problem. In case of NU Linux, this situation will not happen as wheel group is not present. However on Linux Desktop OS, we can not directly open the files like on OS X but we need to use commands like gksudo…this small things make Apple’s UNIX a bit easy to use!

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Abhishek Ghosh is a Businessman, Surgeon, Author and Blogger. You can keep touch with him on Twitter - @AbhishekCTRL.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Give Homebrew a Graphical Interface With CakeBrew," in The Customize Windows, July 11, 2014, February 9, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2014/07/give-homebrew-a-graphical-interface-with-cakebrew/.

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