How to install mtr on OSX Lion

I absolutely love homebrew. It’s so much cleaner and easier to use than the other osx package managers out there.

Recently I decided to install mtr and found that the default installation via homebrew used X11/gtk, which I didn’t much care for. From years of mtr use on Linux, the terminal one just feels better to me…

To make the terminal version the default there are a couple of methods.

Option 1: Install with the –no-gtk option:

brew install mtr --no-gtk

Option 2: Do the default install and create an alias to run terminal mode:

brew install mtr

Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc  or ~/.profile

alias mtr="mtr -t"

Now when you use mtr, it will use the terminal version.