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#377: Document Homebrew installation on MacOS
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE

Release with new features and bugfixes:

* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/377[#377]: Document Homebrew installation on MacOS
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2338[#2338]: Create first basic version of check commandlet
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2193[#2193]: Added support for conditional auto-completion
* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/2488[#2488]: Add compiler and SDK to MSVC installation
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Once installed, you want to link:project.adoc[create a project].
As next step read the link:usage.adoc[usage].

=== Homebrew (MacOS)

If you have https://brew.sh/[Homebrew] installed, you can install IDEasy from the https://github.com/devonfw/homebrew-IDEasy[IDEasy tap]:

```bash
brew install devonfw/ideasy/ideasy
```

To configure `IDE_ROOT` and register the `ide` and `icd` shell functions in `~/.bashrc` and `~/.zshrc`, run:

```bash
ideasy install
```

After setup, open a new terminal to use `ide` and `icd`.

=== Installation Logs

The IDEasy installer writes installation logs to:
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