Linuxbrew is a fork of Homebrew, the Mac OS package manager, for Linux.

It can be installed in your home directory and does not require root access. The same package manager can be used on both your Linux server and your Mac laptop. Installing a modern version of glibc and gcc in your home directory on an old distribution of Linux takes five minutes.

Features, usage and installation instructions are summarised on the homepage.

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Paste at a Terminal prompt:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/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 4.4 or newer
• Linux 2.6.16 or newer
• 64-bit x86 or 32-bit ARM (Raspberry Pi)

Paste at a Terminal prompt:

sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git python-setuptools ruby

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' && sudo yum install curl git irb python-setuptools ruby

Linuxbrew does not currently support 32-bit x86 platforms. It would be possible for Linuxbrew to work on 32-bit x86 platforms with some effort. Pull requests would be welcome if someone were to volunteer to maintain the 32-bit x86 support.

Bottles are Linuxbrew's precompiled binary packages. Linuxbrew bottles work on any Linux system. They do however require glibc 2.19 or better. On systems with an older version of glibc, Linuxbrew will install glibc the first time that you install a bottled formula. If you prefer to use the glibc provided by your system and build all formulas from source, add to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export HOMEBREW_BUILD_FROM_SOURCE=1

Paste at a Terminal prompt:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"

Or if you prefer:

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

Add to your .bashrc or .zshrc:

export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"

You're done!

brew install $WHATEVER_YOU_WANT

1. Type brew search for a list.
2. Or visit braumeister.org to browse packages online.
3. Or use brew search --desc to browse packages from the command line.

brew help, man brew or check our documentation.

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.

Please report security issues to [email protected].

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Linuxbrew is maintained by Shaun Jackman.

Homebrew's current maintainers are Misty De Meo, Andrew Janke, Xu Cheng, Mike McQuaid, Baptiste Fontaine, Brett Koonce, Martin Afanasjew, Dominyk Tiller, Tim Smith and Alex Dunn.

Former maintainers with significant contributions include Jack Nagel, Adam Vandenberg and Homebrew's creator: Max Howell.

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license. Documentation is under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Homebrew is a non-profit project run entirely by unpaid volunteers. We need your funds to pay for software, hardware and hosting around continuous integration and future improvements to the project. Every donation will be spent on making Homebrew better for our users.

Homebrew, the upstream project of Linuxbrew, is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy which provides Homebrew with an ability to receive tax-deductible, Homebrew earmarked donations (and many other services). Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in New York, and donations made to it are fully tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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