Homebrew is the Best Thing EVERRR!!!

Well, indeed perhaps the title is a bit too enthusiastic.... :-)

But, installing things are so so easy. Especially Hadoop. Not the pain it used to be when I was on Windows, which despite being an excellent operating system, does not work quite as well with some open-source stuff.

Without further ado, here's how to install Homebrew. Obviously, you type this into the Terminal:

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

With brew installed, you could install maven like this:

brew install maven

Just to see what would happen (but curiosity is the mother of learning, isn't it), I typed:

brew install hadoop

And it worked! Just like that.


Oh, and should you happen to read this post, please forgive my naive enthusiasm. :-)