managing packages on MacOsX : testing HomeBrew

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  • install

     $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsS http://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/Formula/...
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/...

Press enter to continue
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
==> Installation successful!

  • fix permissions

    $ sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local

  • to install python specific stuff, use pip:

    brew install pip
echo '[install]
install-scripts=/usr/local/Cellar/PyPi/2.6/bin
install-data=/usr/local/Cellar/PyPi/2.6/share' > ~/.pydistutils.cfg
pip install ipython

  • this is with the exception of numpy + scipy, the latter needing

    cd tmp
svn co http://svn.scipy.org/svn/numpy/trunk numpy
pip install numpy

brew install suite-sparse
svn co http://svn.scipy.org/svn/scipy/trunk scipy
pip install scipy