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How to Use

Getting started

First ensure you have Homebrew version '0.9' or higher:

$ brew --version
0.9.3

Tap this repository and install the brew-cask tool:

$ brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask
$ brew install brew-cask

Optional: to install alternate versions of casks (e.g. betas or nightly releases), tap the caskroom/versions repo:

$ brew tap caskroom/versions

Searching for Casks

Let's see if there's a Cask for Chrome:

$ brew cask search chrome
google-chrome

Listing all available casks can be done with a search command with no search term:

$ brew cask search
# list of all available casks

Installing Casks

$ brew cask install google-chrome
==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/chrome/mac/stable/GGRO/googlechrome.dmg
==> Success! google-chrome installed to /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/google-chrome/stable-channel
==> Linking Google Chrome.app to /Users/paulh/Applications/Google Chrome.app

Inspecting Installed Casks

List all installed Casks

$ brew cask list
adium          google-chrome     one-password

Details about a single Cask:

$ brew cask info caffeine
caffeine: 1.1.1
http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Not installed
https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/commits/master/Casks/caffeine.rb

Updating/Upgrading Casks

Since this repository is a Tap, you'll pull down the latest Casks with a simple brew-update. When the brew-cask tool itself is updated, it will show in brew outdated and you can upgrade it via the normal Homebrew workflow.

Uninstalling Casks

Easy peasy:

brew cask uninstall google-chrome

This will both uninstall and unlink the Cask.

Options

You can set options on the command-line and/or using the HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS environment variable, e.g. (again, using google-chrome):

# This probably should happen in your ~/.{ba|z}shrc
$ export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--appdir=/Applications"

# Installs app links to /Applications
$ brew cask install google-chrome

# Trumps the ENV and installs app links to ~/Applications
$ brew cask install --appdir="~/Applications" google-chrome

Taps

You can add Casks to your existing (or new) taps: just create a directory named Casks inside your tap, put your Casks there, and everything will just work.

Alfred Integration

I've been using Casks along with Alfred to great effect. Just add /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom as a Search Scope in Alfred's preferences or manage the scope addition via brew cask alfred. Then applications become available in Alfred immediately after a brew cask install. Your fingertips will thank you.

Oh, and you can brew cask install alfred too! Not bad, eh?