Comments on: Linuxbrew – The Homebrew Package Manager for Linux

By: Terry Grey

Terry Grey — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 08:56:05 +0000

It's like you run a curl command in the command line to install Homebrew, you also run a ruby and curl command to uninstall Homebrew from your Mac. This command works on my Mac:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:39:10 +0000

Excellent instructions.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:44:16 +0000

In reply to laggardkernel.

@Laggardkernel

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.

By: laggardkernel

laggardkernel — Sun, 21 Apr 2019 13:28:44 +0000

It's a good idea to use Linuxbrew to keep your command line tools up-to-date on an LTS distro. It's also useful to get tools in a server where you don't have root privilege. Everything has it's pros and cons. For Linuxbrew, it's BSD based. Secondly, the developer is very conservative about some packages, like openssl 1.0 is used in linuxbrew by default, which means curl, nghttp2 installed by linuxbrew don't support TLS 1.3. I think openssl in most Linux distros is on branch 1.1. If you're not an admin on the machine, Linuxbrew may be the best choice. If you are an admin on the machine and only wanna keep tools up-to-date. You should switch to a non-LTS distro, or a rolling distro.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:39:03 +0000

In reply to Eddie G. O’Connor.

@ Eddie

Many thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.