我可以在 Ubuntu 上使用 Homebrew 吗？

Question

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 build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev

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

I got the following warning:

Warning: /home/tong/.linuxbrew/bin is not in your PATH.

I vi my bash.bashrc in home/etc and add this:

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

Then I tried brew doctor but got No command 'brew' found . How am I able to use Homebrew on Ubuntu?

Answer 1

As of February 2018, installing brew on Ubuntu (mine is 17.10) machine is as simple as:

sudo apt install linuxbrew-wrapper

Then, on first brew execution (just type brew --help ) you will be asked for two installation options:

me@computer:~/$ brew --help
==> Select the Linuxbrew installation directory
- Enter your password to install to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew (recommended)
- Press Control-D to install to /home/me/.linuxbrew
- Press Control-C to cancel installation
[sudo] password for me:

For recommended option type your password (if your current user is in sudo group), or, if you prefer installing all the dependencies in your own home folder, hit Ctrl + D . Enjoy.

Answer 2

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..

Answer 3

as of august 2020 (works for kali linux as well)

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linuxbrew/install/master/install.sh)"

export brew=/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin

test -d ~/.linuxbrew && eval $(~/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)

test -d /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew && eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)

test -r ~/.profile && echo "eval \$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)" >>~/.profile     // for ubuntu and debian

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Understanding the installation steps can save some time

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 .

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Why the installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew - from here :

The installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew using sudo if possible and in your home directory at ~/.linuxbrew otherwise. Homebrew does not use sudo 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 .

Answer 6

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)"

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

October 2019 - Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL with oh-my-zsh; the instructions here worked perfectly -

(first, install pre-requisites using )

finally create a with the following contents:

Answer 9

Whta to do

   cd /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin
    ./brew doctor

You will get what path to export

   echo 'export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc