Homebrew (un)installer

A fork designed to simplify installation in Linux in user space (without sudo)

Simply run the following commands to apply the linux installation patch (exposing $HOMEBREW_PREFIX variable) to the upstream Homebrew install.sh script.

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="${HOME}/.homebrew"
export NONINTERACTIVE=1
mkdir -p "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}"
wget -O install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh
wget -O linux_fix.patch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/toshas/homebrew_install/HEAD/linux_fix.patch
patch -p1 < linux_fix.patch
/bin/bash install.sh

This exact code is contained in the linux_install_latest.sh file.

Question: Why is this not submitted as a pull request against the upstream?

Answer: Because of an early design choice and maintainers' decision to not break backward compatibility.

Install Homebrew (on macOS or Linux)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

More installation information and options: https://docs.brew.sh/Installation.

If you're on macOS, try out our new .pkg installer. Download it from Homebrew's latest GitHub release.

If you are running Linux or WSL, there are some pre-requisite packages to install.

You can set HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API to tap Homebrew/homebrew-core; by default, it will not be tapped as it is no longer necessary.

You can set HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE and/or HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE in your shell environment to use geolocalized Git mirrors to speed up Homebrew's installation with this script and, after installation, brew update.

export HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE="..."  # put your Git mirror of Homebrew/brew here
export HOMEBREW_CORE_GIT_REMOTE="..."  # put your Git mirror of Homebrew/homebrew-core here
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

The default Git remote will be used if the corresponding environment variable is unset.

If you want to run the Homebrew installer non-interactively without prompting for passwords (e.g. in automation scripts), you can use:

NONINTERACTIVE=1 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Uninstall Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

If you want to run the Homebrew uninstaller non-interactively, you can use:

NONINTERACTIVE=1 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

If you want to to uninstall Homebrew from a specific prefix (e.g. when migrating from Intel to Apple Silicon processors), download the uninstall script and run it with --path:

curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh
/bin/bash uninstall.sh --path /usr/local

Run the downloaded script with /bin/bash uninstall.sh --help to view more uninstall options.