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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
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    Doesn't your OSX has iTunes pre-installed ?
    – clhy
    Aug 13, 2015 at 20:22
  • 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. Aug 16, 2015 at 10:01

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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).

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  • 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. Aug 16, 2015 at 9:52
  • 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
    Aug 16, 2015 at 13:41
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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

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  • You can use brew search itunes instead of brew search | grep itunes.
    – bfontaine
    Aug 16, 2015 at 12:41
  • @bfontaine Idea behind brew search | grep is to list all the packages & then grep itunes.
    – clhy
    Aug 16, 2015 at 14:35
  • yes I understand that, but brew search itunes does the same, faster.
    – bfontaine
    Aug 16, 2015 at 15:36
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    @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
    – clhy
    Aug 16, 2015 at 15:42

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