How to install itunes on osx with homebrew?

I couldn't find any itunes on homebrew to be able to install. Am I missing something?

I tried:

brew search itune

I've got

Caskroom/cask/itunes-producer       Caskroom/cask/itunesscrobbler
Caskroom/cask/itunes-volume-control

raisercostin

Posted 2015-08-13T19:21:37.397

Reputation: 323

1Doesn't your OSX has iTunes pre-installed ? – pun – 2015-08-13T20:22:49.777

Thanks. I tried to use Caskroom/cask/iexplorer that complained that it doesn't find "iTunes Music Library XML" and I assumed that it doesn't find it because I don't have iTunes installed. Now that you said I found it and i shared "ITunes Library XMl with other applications". My windows&linux intuitions still don't work smoothly on OSX. – raisercostin – 2015-08-16T10:01:30.757

Answers

You can’t. The only way to install programs like iTunes is with Homebrew Cask; but it doesn’t provide iTunes because it’s already pre-installed on OS X and “Apple pushes iTunes updates automatically as part of system updates, so there’s no reason why anyone should be using homebrew-cask to install this” (the quote comes from a Homebrew-Cask maintainer).

bfontaine

Posted 2015-08-13T19:21:37.397

Reputation: 134

Thanks for clarifying this with the link to github. Nevertheless iTunes is not part of the OS so you might want to pin an older version, uninstall. At least it would be nice for homebrew to acknowledge that there is no need to install it since is managed automatically by OS. – raisercostin – 2015-08-16T09:52:17.930

What makes you say it isn’t part of the OS? You can also delete Notepad on Windows. It’s still part of the OS. – Daniel B – 2015-08-16T13:41:34.647

No, you are not missing anything.

There is no iTunes formula aka package available in Homebrew Also iTunes comes pre-installed in OSX

This returns nothing

brew search | grep itunes

You might want to check this too

pun

Posted 2015-08-13T19:21:37.397

Reputation: 5 311

You can use brew search itunes instead of brew search | grep itunes. – bfontaine – 2015-08-16T12:41:22.463

@bfontaine Idea behind brew search | grep is to list all the packages & then grep itunes. – pun – 2015-08-16T14:35:19.153

yes I understand that, but brew search itunes does the same, faster. – bfontaine – 2015-08-16T15:36:38.923

1@bfontaine OP has already done that & he was thinking he is missing something. My point in doing it my way was to show him that there is indeed no package called itunes. As you may be aware brew search lists all the available packages – pun – 2015-08-16T15:42:19.093