macupgrade

Upgrade HomeBrews, Mac OS and other stuff in one time!

Features

Designed for Apple Mac, this Bash script performs an owner check/mod of /usr/local folder (to permit to any users to run HomeBrew update/upgrade without folder ownership errors), run HomeBrew + Cask update/upgrade/cleanup, run Atom upgrade, NPM update and finally run MAS & Mac OS upgrades.

MAIN requirements

• Git
• awk

SUB requirements (not needed but useful)

• HomeBrew
• Atom
• npm
• MAS

Installation

git clone https://github.com/dade80vr/macupgrade.git

Make it executable

cd macupgrade
chmod +x macupgrade.sh

Usage

./macupgrade.sh (with no arguments) run in quiet mode (default)

--help show help

-v verbose mode, show output from any script (default hide)

-m monochrome output

November 2020 update: Fixed deprecated commands and fix version:latest upgrades

April 2020 update: NPM error fixed

January 2020 update: NPM update error needs investigation

Version 3.4 hit an error when running npm update -gq so the update was been temporaly disabled for investigation.

npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! syscall symlink
npm ERR! path ../../../lib/node_modules/npm/man/man1/npm-adduser.1
npm ERR! dest /usr/local/share/man/man1/npm-adduser.1
npm ERR! errno -17
npm ERR! EEXIST: file already exists, symlink '../../../lib/node_modules/npm/man/man1/npm-adduser.1' -> '/usr/local/share/man/man1/npm-adduser.1'
npm ERR! File exists: /usr/local/share/man/man1/npm-adduser.1
npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm
npm ERR! with --force to overwrite files recklessly.

Plese wait for next update or help me to find the problem :)

March 2018 update: Warnings or errors messages regarding MAS

If you got warnings or errors @ steps 2-3 (HomeBrew MAS upgrade) regarding installation of Xcode 9.0 please remove mas and reinstall it from mas-cli/tap/mas:

brew uninstall mas
brew install mas-cli/tap/mas

Se this issue for major details: mas-cli/mas#138

License

Code is under the MIT license.

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Want to uninstall?

rm -rf macupgrade