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The Homebrew RabbitMQ Formula

Overview

Homebrew is a popular package manager for MacOS.

RabbitMQ formula is available from Homebrew's core tap (out of the box). The formula will also install a reasonably recent supported Erlang/OTP version as a dependency.

Installation

Before installing make sure the taps are up-to-date: 

brew update
Then, install RabbitMQ server with: 
brew install rabbitmq

Installing the RabbitMQ formula will install key dependencies such as a supported Erlang/OTP version.

Operations

The RabbitMQ server scripts and CLI tools are installed in sbin directory under /usr/local/Cellar/rabbitmq, which is accessible via /usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/sbin. In case that directory is not in PATH it's recommend to append it: 

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/opt/rabbitmq/sbin
The server can then be started with rabbitmq-server.

With Homebrew the node and CLI tools will use the logged in user account by default. Using sudo is not required.

Otherwise operations are no different from the generic binary build. Please refer to the Operations section of the generic binary build guide section.

Getting Help and Providing Feedback

If you have questions about the contents of this guide or any other topic related to RabbitMQ, don't hesitate to ask them on the RabbitMQ mailing list.

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