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@joelpurra joelpurra commented Oct 28, 2018

  • The popular macOS package manager brew has a formula for n, maintained by the Homebrew community.
  • Does not require installing node/npm first.
  • The n formula was installed 1401 times in the past 30 days (as of 2018-10-28T09:01:04Z).
  • This commit adds the installation method below the npm and make methods, but above n-install, in README.md.
brew install n

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- The popular macOS package manager `brew` has a formula for `n`, maintained by the Homebrew community.
- Does not require installing `node` first.
- The `n` formula was installed 1401 times in the past 30 days (as of 2018-10-28T09:01:04Z).
- This commit adds the installation method below the `npm` and `make` methods, but above `n-install`, in `README.md`.

```shell
brew install n
```

See

- https://brew.sh/
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/n.rb
- https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install/30d/
- https://formulae.brew.sh/api/analytics/install/homebrew-core/30d.json
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troy0820 commented Nov 5, 2018

What I'm worried about is the way brew does installs. Because the formula installs it and symlinks directories, I'm worried how installing with brew functions after it installs. I can't test this because how I installed mine. I'd be interested because brew definitely has a community who could use this.

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@troy0820 I'm a big Homebrew fan and I actually installed n via Brew even though it wasn't mentioned in the repo. Works perfectly fine for me...

@shadowspawn shadowspawn added the docs Changes to README or other documentation label Mar 23, 2019
@shadowspawn shadowspawn self-assigned this Mar 29, 2019
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Not a blocker, but is there an appropriate support channel for brew specific install issues with n?

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Merged to develop for next release.

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Not a blocker, but is there an appropriate support channel for brew specific install issues with n?

@shadowspawn: yes, the homebrew-core issue tracker.

@shadowspawn shadowspawn merged commit b1a7d72 into tj:master Apr 5, 2019
@joelpurra joelpurra deleted the mention-brew-install-n branch July 2, 2019 16:59
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