Comment by assimpleaspossi
1 month ago
That doesn't make sense. Why do I need Homebrew to install the command line tools of macOS on macOS? Doesn't macOS already have them installed? Same for Linux, etc.
1 month ago
That doesn't make sense. Why do I need Homebrew to install the command line tools of macOS on macOS? Doesn't macOS already have them installed? Same for Linux, etc.
Replace "need" with "want" and it might make more sense?
Homebrew is the Mac equivalent of APT, Pacman, RPM, BSD ports, etc. It's a fairly traditional package manager for software that doesn't come with macOS. "brew install postgresql" installs Postgres into /opt/homebrew, for example.
So how does one install postgresql on a Mac?
https://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/
"brew install postgresql", unless you meant without Homebrew, in which case you could download the sources manually and compile with "make".