homebrew

ing directory where I wanted it (I called it "brew"), and then add $HOME/brew/bin and $HOME/brew/sbin to my $PATH. If you want it in /usr/local, see the instructions at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation , but in the "curl" line, replace their URL with the one you picked above. You should now be able to type "brew" and see its usage message. At this point, "brew install" worked for me, except that it wasn't chmodding binaries as executable. At the end of installations, it was giving a bunch of messages like "file: invalid option -- h". This appears to be because my 10.4 PPC version of "file" doesn't support "-h". To fix this, I installed the gnu version instead: brew install libmagic chmod +x ~/brew/Cellar/libmagic/5.04/bin/file brew link libmagic #libmagic doesn't add gnu "file" to your PATH without this command, because it doesn't want to override the OS-provided "file" After that, homebrew seems to work, with the following caveats: 1. "brew update" (which updates the package manager itself) will try to update from the non-PPC, upstream version of homebrew. I just don't use this command. 2. "brew doctor" complains that my gcc is too old (because I can't use the latest Xcode) and can't seem to detect that I have X11 installed, even though I do. I've also found the people in #machomebrew on irc.freenode.net to be a helpful bunch, although not many have experience with homebrew on PPC. Let me know how it goes!