A fork of Homebrew for Linux

Paste at a Terminal prompt:

ruby -e "$(wget -O- https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"

See Dependencies and Installation below for more details.

• Can install software to a home directory and so does not require sudo
• Install software not packaged by the native distribution
• Install up-to-date versions of software when the native distribution is old
• Use the same package manager to manage both your Mac and Linux machines

• Ruby 1.8.6 or newer

• GCC 4.2 or newer

Paste at a Terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' && sudo yum install curl git m4 ruby texinfo bzip2-devel curl-devel expat-devel ncurses-devel zlib-devel

Paste at a Terminal prompt:

ruby -e "$(wget -O- https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"

Or if you prefer:

git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew.git ~/.linuxbrew

Add to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"

You're done!

brew install $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT

1. You can browse the Formula directory on GitHub.
2. Or type brew search for a list.
3. Or visit braumeister.org to browse packages online.
4. Or use brew desc to browse packages from the command line.

brew help or man brew or check our wiki.

First, please run brew update and brew doctor.

Second, read the Troubleshooting Checklist.

If you don't read these it will take us far longer to help you with your problem.

Many of the Homebrew formulae work on either Mac or Linux without changes, but some formulae will need to be adapted for Linux. If a formula doesn't work, open an issue on GitHub or, even better, submit a pull request.

Linuxbrew is maintained by Shaun Jackman.

Homebrew's current maintainers are Misty De Meo, Adam Vandenberg, Jack Nagel, Mike McQuaid and Brett Koonce.

Homebrew was originally created by Max Howell.

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license.

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