homebrew cask installs

It never fails that enterprise IT allows you to run homebrew, but doesn’t give you privileges to write some of the typical directories homebrew uses.

When brew install ... fails, you can use a workaround by installing in the user ~/Applications folder.

It also never fails that I forget the exact syntax for that.

It’s simple.

Run

brew install --cask slack --appdir=~/Applications

to install Slack (or whatever you need to install).

Note

This only works when there’s a cask available for the package.