Installs Homebrew to /usr/local so you don't need sudo to `brew install`

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@JohnDCCIU: Thanks for the tip. However, I've been trying to put in the flag and it still doesn't seem to work at all!

Currently, I'm entering:

ruby -e "$(curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"

Oh gosh. That was the easiest install EVER!!! One line and my password install a program is a first.

JoshTheGeek =D

Yes there's a ticket for this. I'll revert the change for now. You can fix it quite easily by just changing the permissions on /usr/local. Update: script is updated. Including a fix for the curl SSL certificate.

when I "brew install git" i get this:

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 503
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.8\ (Ruby\ 1.8.6-369;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.5.8) http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2 -o /Users/josephgutman/Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2 --insecure

Most likely due to the fact that kernel.org is returning a 503 error when you try to download git...

http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2

... kinda like it says in the error message :)

ah yes, realizing that kernel is down

When I tried to brew install mysql it gave me an error that it couldn't find /usr/local/Cellar. I had to mkdir /usr/local/Cellar to get it working. Should Cellar be created with this script or in one of the formulas?

Got an error during install: /usr/local exists in the machine, but it doesn't contains all the subdirectories listed in chmods. That causes the sudo in line 113 to fail.

Hi Max,

Please change abort unless getc == 13 to abort unless gets == "\n"

So that the install will work via fabric, etc!

@halcyonCorsair What's fabric? Why won't it work? What's etc?

@jazzido it checks if the directories exist on line 94. Error messages are more useful than inaccurate analysis. Thanks.

@mxcl “Etc.” means “et cetera”, “and so on”, means things other than Fabric, whatever that is.

Fabric is a Python-based ssh automation thingy: https://github.com/fabric/fabric

I wonder if there is any good reason I didn't use gets in the first place. I imagine there must be. It's not the kind of thing I'd do otherwise. Shame I didn't have the foresight to comment it :P

Aah. It's because of UX. if you press any other key it should immediately exit. gets requires you to press enter, which makes ineffective for the exit option for the instruction "Press enter to continue".

Ok. In my quick tests, I'm getting

>> STDIN.getbyte

=> 10
>> 10.chr
=> "\n"
>> 13.chr
=> "\r"

Can we change the line to be:

i = getc
abort unless i == 13 or i == 13

Or am I off my rocker here?

Can we get an explanation of why it doesn't work so we can fix it more effectively?

Oops, 2am typo there, what I meant was...

i = getc
abort unless i == 10 or i == 13

I have no idea why \r is getting sent instead of \n for me.

Modified. Thanks.

Pull request: http://gist.github.com/1836995
Changed shebang to #!/usr/bin/env ruby so other rubies can be used (in case user has removed the default system ruby)

Ideally instead of saying "use su", this script should say "su to a non-root admin user". It got me confused when it said to just use su, and then said "don't run this as root".

I'll remove the su, bit. Since apparently people don't realise what it means. Nobody understands unix anymore.

I understand Unix and it confused me.

The script says:

If you still want to use this script set your user to be an Administrator in System Preferences or `su'.

It should be more specific and say to su as an administrator user. I figured that root was effectively an administrator, because I'm new to MacOS. The language just isn't precise.

I have amended it as you suggested. Thanks.

Link to wrong url -> new url raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Broken link D:

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

Broken link

use command
adduser bob
su - bob
and then run
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"