I just tried to use Homebrew and Linuxbrew to install packages on my Ubuntu Server but both failed. This is how I tried to install them:
sudo apt-get install bui
Linux is now officially supported in brew - see the Homebrew 2.0.0 blog post. As shown on https://brew.sh, just copy/paste this into a command prompt:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Because all previous answers doesn't work for me for ubuntu 14.04 here what I did, if any one get the same problem:
git clone https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew.git ~/.linuxbrew
PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$(brew --prefix)/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$(brew --prefix)/share/info:$INFOPATH"
then
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo yum install gawk
brew install hello
you can follow this link for more information.
October 2019 - Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL with oh-my-zsh; the instructions here worked perfectly -
(first, install pre-requisites using sudo apt-get install build-essential curl file git)
finally create a ~/.zprofile
with the following contents:
emulate sh -c '. ~/.profile'
I just tried installing it using the ruby command but somehow the dependencies are not resolved hence brew does not completely install. But, try installing by cloning:
git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew.git ~/.linuxbrew
and then add the following to your .bash_profile
:
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
It should work..
You can just follow instructions from the Homebrew on Linux docs, but I think it is better to understand what the instructions are trying to achieve.
Step 1: Choose location
First of all, it is important to understand that linuxbrew will be installed on the /home
directory and not inside /home/your-user
(the ~
directory).
(See the reason for that at the end of answer).
Keep this in mind when you run the other steps below.
Step 2: Add linuxbrew binaries to /home
:
The installation script will do it for us:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Step 3: Check that /linuxbrew
was added to the relevant location
This can be done by simply navigating to /home
.
Notice that the docs are showing it as a one-liner by adding test -d <linuxbrew location>
before each command.
(Read more about the test
command in here).
Step 4: Export relevant environment variables to terminal
We need to add linuxbrew to PATH
and add some more environment variables to the current terminal.
We can just add the following export
s to terminal (wait don't do it..):
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin${PATH+:$PATH}";
export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew";
export HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar";
export HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew";
export MANPATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/man${MANPATH+:$MANPATH}:";
export INFOPATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/info:${INFOPATH:-}";
Or simply run (If your linuxbrew folder is on other location then /home
- change the path):
eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)
(*) Because brew
command is not yet identified by the current terminal (this is what we're solving right now) we'll have to specify the full path to the brew binary: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv
Test this step by:
1 ) Run brew
from current terminal to see if it identifies the command.
2 ) Run printenv
and check if all environment variables were exported and that you see /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin
on PATH
.
Step 5: Ensure step 4 is running on each terminal
We need to add step 4 to ~/.profile
(in case of Debian/Ubuntu):
echo "eval \$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)" >> ~/.profile
For CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat - replace ~/.profile
with ~/.bash_profile
.
Step 6: Ensure that ~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile
are being executed when new terminal is opened
If you executed step 5 and failed to run brew
from new terminal - add a test command like echo "Hi!"
to ~/.profile
or ~/.bash_profile
.
If you don't see Hi!
when you open a new terminal - go to the terminal preferences and ensure that the attribute of 'run command as login shell' is set.
Read more in here.
Why the installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
- from here:
The installation script installs Homebrew to
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
usingsudo
if possible and in your home directory at~/.linuxbrew
otherwise. Homebrew does not usesudo
after installation.
Using/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
allows the use of more binary packages (bottles) than installing in your personal home directory.The prefix
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew
was chosen so that users without admin access can ask an admin to create a linuxbrew role account and still benefit from precompiled binaries.If you do not yourself have admin privileges, consider asking your admin staff to create a linuxbrew role account for you with home directory
/home/linuxbrew
.
The following steps worked for me:
Clone it from github
git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew.git ~/.linuxbrew
Open your .bash_profile file using vi ~/.bash_profile
Add these lines
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
Then type the following lines in your terminal
export PATH=$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH
hash -r
Yes, it is done. Type brew
in your terminal to check its existence.