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Seth's Homebrew tap
Homebrew tap publishing macOS install for sethLabels.
Install
brew tap seth/tap https://git.sethpc.xyz/Seth/homebrew-tap.git
brew install seth/tap/glabels-qt
The explicit URL form is required because Homebrew defaults to GitHub for tap
names. When this repo is mirrored to GitHub at the public-flip, the URL becomes
implicit and the tap command shortens to brew tap seth/tap.
Launchpad / Spotlight integration (macOS)
brew install puts glabels-qt and glabels-batch-qt on your $PATH as CLI
binaries. To get a Launchpad icon (and Spotlight matches), copy the bundled
.app wrapper to /Applications/:
cp -R "$(brew --prefix glabels-qt)/glabels-qt.app" /Applications/
Re-run that one-liner after each brew upgrade glabels-qt so the wrapper
points at the latest version. (Brew formulas can't write to /Applications/
directly without elevation; the cp is the user's one-time step.)
Formulae
| Formula | Description |
|---|---|
glabels-qt |
gLabels label designer (Qt/C++) — Seth's packaging fork of glabels-qt |
How this works
brew install seth/tap/glabels-qt clones the sethLabels git tag pinned in
Formula/glabels-qt.rb, builds Qt6 + glabels-qt from source, and installs to
/opt/homebrew/. First install takes ~5–10 minutes. Subsequent
brew upgrade glabels-qt runs are fast (only the version-bumped formula
re-builds).
Per-release maintenance
Each sethLabels release is one commit on this repo: bump tag: and revision:
in Formula/glabels-qt.rb. No other edits expected.
Spec
Design rationale lives in the sethLabels repo:
sethlabels-docs/specs/2026-04-29-packaging-design.md §D2, §7.