I'm not sure I'm using the Mac OS brew package manager properly. Packages don't end up in /usr/local unless I follow a
brew install foo
with a
brew ln foo
What makes me suspicious is nearly every quickstart tutorial I see on using brew doesn't indicate that the ln step is required.
Am I missing something?
It's especially annoying when I install something like ffmpeg, that installs a lot of prerequisites. I find myself having to read the log, finding what it installed and manually doing a
brew ln yasm
brew ln videolan
brew ln faac
etc, for each prerequisite installed. I can't believe it's supposed to work this way. What am I doing wrong.
You shouldn't have to; brew ln should be performed automatically after a package is installed.