What Does Homebrew Do? Homebrew installs the stuff you need that Apple (or your Linux system) didn’t.

The script installs Homebrew to its default, supported, best prefix (/opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon, /usr/local for macOS Intel and /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew for Linux) so that you don’t need sudo …

Homebrew can install its own current versions of glibc and gcc for older distributions of Linux. Features, installation instructions and requirements are described below.

This is a listing of all packages available from the core tap via the Homebrew package manager for macOS and Linux.

When $HOMEBREW_ARTIFACT_DOMAIN and $HOMEBREW_ARTIFACT_DOMAIN_NO_FALLBACK are both set, if the request to $HOMEBREW_ARTIFACT_DOMAIN fails then Homebrew will error …

This page describes how Python is handled in Homebrew for users. See Python for Formula Authors for advice on writing formulae to install packages written in Python.

Homebrew has two possible strategies to update cask apps: uninstalling the old version and reinstalling the new one, or replacing the contents of the app with the new contents.

Homebrew Bundle is run with the brew bundle command. It uses Brewfile s to provide a declarative interface for installing/upgrading packages with Homebrew and starting services with brew services.

Homebrew’s package index

Homebrew’s package index