Mac OS X with Homebrew A brew for the RabbitMQ server is available from Homebrew . Note: You may not be able to install the RabbitMQ brew from inside a firewall. Install the Server Before installing make sure you have the latest brews: brew update Then, install RabbitMQ server with: brew install rabbitmq Run RabbitMQ Server The RabbitMQ server scripts are installed into /usr/local/sbin . This is not automatically added to your path, so you may wish to add PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/sbin to your .bash_profile or .profile . The server can then be started with rabbitmq-server . All scripts run under your own user account. Sudo is not required.