[NFBCS] OSX Questions

[Michael McQuaid]

Actually, steps 1 and 2 should be together: brew tap username/file
githublink

When I do brew install afterwards, it tells me that the tap has already
been installed, so I guess that does the installation. By the way, there is
nothing in the Applications folder. Things are installed into
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps and potentially symlinked to
/usr/local/bin.

I still have not figured out how to get the example you gave,
hephaest0s/usbkill, to work. Sorry about that.

- Mick

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 1:42 PM Reece O’Bryan <Reece.obryan at pm.me> wrote:

> so is this the procedure:
>
> 1. Brew tap username/file
> 2. Paste git hub link
>
> Does this actually do the installation or just tap into the repository and
> then I would need to run another command to install it after adding the
> repository?
> Is there some thing to add to the syntax to have whatever is download it
> added to the applications folder? I thought I had found something that did
> this, but cannot seem to find it again.
>
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>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 1:23 PM, Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I'm afraid I may have given bad advice. I can not make that example work
> at all. I can add it as a tap by saying
>
> brew tap hephaest0s/usbkill https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
>
> but after that my brew setup refuses to recognize it. It does recognize
> others I have installed. I tried to figure out what they have in common
> that usbkill does not, but have so far been unsuccessful and have to go
> back to work now. I'll try to figure out more later but I am doubtful that
> I'll be able to figure it out.
>
> - Mick
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:44 AM Reece O’Bryan <Reece.obryan at pm.me> wrote:
>
>> here is one for example:
>>
>> https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
>>
>> <https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill>1. So can I essentially just
>> replace, “git clone” with brew install”?
>> Example: brew install https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
>>
>> <https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill>2. From playing around with my
>> experience, it seems as if installing this way doesn’t automatically add a
>> shortcut to the application and the applications folder. Is there something
>> I need to do after installing with brew to be able to access what I
>> downloaded in the applications folder?
>>
>> Many thanks for the help,
>>
>> -Reece
>>
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>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 11:00 AM, Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Can you give an example of a repo you want to install? I think the first
>> way you described is correct, you can just brew install if it is a github
>> repo. If it is a different source, then you have to add it.
>>
>> - Mick
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:35 AM Reece O’Bryan <Reece.obryan at pm.me>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> thank you very much for the reply! Brew tab seems to be the key! I’m
>>> having a little confusion even though I am reading the documentation on it.
>>> It says the following,
>>>
>>> If it’s on GitHub, users can install any of your formulae with brew
>>> install user/repo/formula. Homebrew will automatically add your
>>> github.com/user/homebrew-repo tap before installing the formula.
>>>
>>> From googling around I read that you need to add the repository by
>>> having it, but this makes it seem as if you can just, “brew install”
>>> followed by the repository and it will automatically do this, is that
>>> correct or do I first need to add the repository by tapping it and then
>>> running some variant of, “brew install” after it is tabbed?
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 9:37 PM, Michael McQuaid <mickmcquaid at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think I answered the first question before but here it is again, just
>>> in case. You can use "brew tap" to deal with third party repositories and
>>> it defaults to github.
>>>
>>> Question 2: I don't know how to make the screen curtain come on at boot
>>> by itself, but there is a third party software that will make it come on at
>>> login. It is found at http://manytricks.com/desktopcurtain
>>>
>>> Not sure about question 3
>>>
>>> Regarding question 4, the only way I can find to open an app in
>>> background is through terminal or a script. I can't figure out why yours is
>>> opening in background. Sorry.
>>>
>>> One thing I'm doing in searching for help is prefacing the question with
>>> macOS instead of OSX since Apple is now calling it macOS. That seems to
>>> bring up more recent help.
>>>
>>> - Mick
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 8:53 AM Reece O’Bryan via NFBCS <
>>> nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, I have some questions for my new MacBook and I’m hoping some of
>>>> you can help:
>>>>
>>>> > 1. Can I use brew and/or cask to download apps or scripts from
>>>> GitHub? If so, can brew update them and pull the latest release from GitHub?
>>>> >
>>>> > 2. Can I make the screen curtain come on automatically at boot?
>>>> >
>>>> > 3. I’m not sure which key I pressed, but I have hidden some
>>>> applications that were in my applications folder, how can I add them back
>>>> and show everything installed in the applications folder? I know that the
>>>> applications weren’t uninstalled, just hidden, because they can still be
>>>> opened with Siri.
>>>> >
>>>> > 4. When opening a document or application it opens in the background
>>>> behind the window I can currently in. Can I make it so that focus goes to
>>>> whatever I am opening? I don’t want to have to command tab each and every
>>>> time.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks in advance for any replies,
>>>> >
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