“brew” is the command for Homebrew which is a Mac package manager similar to apt-get on Linux. The other popular one is MacPorts. I have both installed, but I tend to use Homebrew.
Here’s some interesting reading on them.[1] Homebrew has had recipes for every package I’ve needed. [1]http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/32724/what-are-pros-and-cons-for-macports-fink-and-homebrew On Nov 16, 2015, at 9:55 AM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is no need to use brew (I have no idea what that is) to install > maven.