Homebrew Cask

Let's see if we can get the elegance, simplicity, and speed of Homebrew for the installation and management of GUI Mac applications such as Google Chrome and Adium.

Install

Install Homebrew-cask is really straight forward. We just need to add the cask tap and then install brew cask.

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
$ brew cask install google-chrome

Search

It is really simple to check if the app is supported by cask by going to the search page on caskroom.io

homebrew-cask-versions

Here you'll find alternate versions of Casks for the homebrew-cask project.

Usage

After you install homebrew-cask, run the following command:

$ brew tap caskroom/versions

You can now install alternate versions of Casks.

$ brew cask install google-chrome-canary

App Installation

Here are some apps you should now be able to install with Homebrew Cask

$ brew cask install atom
$ brew cask install box-sync
$ brew cask install dropbox
$ brew cask install evernote
$ brew cask install firefox
$ brew cask install firefox-beta
$ brew cask install firefox-nightly
$ brew cask install firefoxdeveloperedition
$ brew cask install google-chrome
$ brew cask install google-chrome-canary
$ brew cask install microsoft-lync
$ brew cask install origin
$ brew cask install skitch
$ brew cask install skype
$ brew cask install slack
$ brew cask install spotify
$ brew cask install vagrant
$ brew cask install virtualbox