The Brewfile in this repository was generated from NC State University Libraries' born-digital processing workstation. We use Homebrew to manage the majority of the applications we use in our work. This file can be used on Mac OS and Linux to quickly install a set of packages we find useful for digital archival extracting and reporting procedures.
More information about how we use some of the tools listed in the Brewfile can be found in BitCurator: Beyond Environment.
Assuming Homebrew is installed on your computer, download the Brewfile from this repository and type in a terminal:
brew bundle --file=/path/to/Brewfile
updating "/path/to/file" to where you have the Brewfile saved locally.
This Brewfile is likely to change over time.
If you are already using Homebrew to manage things, installing packages in reference to this Brewfile should install only packages you don't have installed and skip over the things you do have installed. While brewing, you should see output in your terminal that looks like this:
Installing tree
Installing twarc
Using richardlehane/digipres/siegfried
Installing youtube-dl
But, just to be safe, please first make a back-up by creating your own Brewfile by typing in a terminal:
brew bundle dump
The Brewfile should be written to the home directory of the user account you're currently logged in as.
The article macOS migrations with Brewfile provides a useful overview of the bundle Homebrew package, used in generating and installing packages through referencing Brewfiles. It also goes into some detail about Homebrew, more generally.
We haven't tesetd Homebrew on Linux, but there is documentation available on the Homebrew site.
The following assumes you have already run the brew bundle installation command.
We use (and love) Tessa Walsh's Brunnhilde, but, unfortunately, it's not available through Homebrew. If you have pip set up, you can run
sudo pip install brunnhilde
Most dependencies will be installed via the Brewfile, so do that before installing Brunnhilde. Note you'll also need to install hfsexplorer. See Tessa's instructions for that.
On the subject of pip, you can also manage packages with pip. See 12.3. Managing Packages with pip.
While clamav IS available as a Homebrew package, you'll need to do some additional work to get it running. This has worked for us (clamav will be installed via the Brewfile, so you can skip brew install clamav):
Get ClamAV running on Mac OS X (using Homebrew)
I'd like to thank my late friend and colleague Bret Davidson for first suggesting Brewfile as a lightweight approach to sharing one's processing environment. I'd also like to thank Robert Manley of Washington University in St. Louis for his willingness to test this out, and for his insightful feedback and suggestions that have made their way into this README.
- Brian Dietz (bjdietz at ncsu dot edu)
See MIT-LICENSE