The Best Package Manager

Instead of using the built-in package manager in Linux or some container that never puts the programs files in a usable spot, we will use Homebrew!

[mitchelvalentino]

While I’m partial to pkgsrc on the Linux/BSD side, and MacPorts on the macOS side, I also use Homebrew/Linuxbrew and it has never once let me down. It’s sudo-less, well-documented, and has a vast repository of up-to-date packages. It behaves a little differently than most Linux package managers, but once you get used to it, it’s a breeze.

Also, some users may not like the default Google analytics that Homebrew uses, yet one can easily opt-out by typing ‘brew analytics off’ or by setting ‘export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1’ and of course be sure to check the official documentation. It’s excellent!

[SxC]

I've been using homebrew for years on mac. When I built a linux desktop, I was so happy to see homebrew was supported on it! I could just use "brew bundle" to create a backup of my packages and reuse it on my linux machine.

[tuppytheducky]

Absolutely love homebrew, it completely transformed how I use my MacBook, which is my go to laptop.

[BrianJones-wkcx]

Great heads-up. I came to Homebrew from the MacOS side (well, I started with it when it was called OS X, but I digress …), and would not have thought of it as a Linux tool either. Going to give it a whirl as well, thank you!

[John__]

Awesome new tool for my three computers! Thanks Chris!

[winstonsuny]

Excellent video! You've done it again!

[TuxMan]

I've been using Linuxbrew for a while now since Neovim 0.6 wasn't available on my distro's repository. I find it works SO WELL!! I was so confused why nobody was talking about it!

[POINTS]

I had heard of homebrew but didn't know much about it. Thanks for explaining it. This could be something that is useful to a lot of people.

[lucasgssilveira]

As a mac and linux user, I absolutely love homebrew. I didn't know it was possible to use it on linux

[pragitsharma]

i am gonna install it right now titus.. you are a life saver man..

[jason-budney]

I have heard of Homebrew, but didn't know what is was about. Thanks Chris for bringing to my attention. I'll be trying it soon.

[cosmiccuttlefish]

YES! I love homebrew! It has saved me so much time. It’s a real life saver

[Little-bird-told-me]

Wo you really opened my window to this great tool. I have been playing with it for a while and I never thought brew was so powerful. I stopped going to the app store or downloading dmg file. This is real freedom. Thanks much Chris

[leighhorton]

Installed it for the first time on fedora 36. Had to restart as brew install was not recognised.
So I re installed it and it found some errors.
Now it's working really well. A great video. Yes homebrew on fedora is great and also good to drink!?

[Modus_Pwnin]

This is awesome. Thank you again for another great vid

[rishabruh]

idk why I've just ignored homebrew for so long i always thought it was a macOS thing that happened to support linux

[VTz]

Brew update does not upgrade packages, it just checks if updates are available, like apt update.

brew update = apt update
brew outdated = apt list —upgradeable
brew upgrade = apt upgrade -y

However, brew update does upgrade homebrew itself. That’s why if you run brew update you sometimes see that homebrew updated itself while checking what other updates are available.

[jjify]

Love this. Clean and simple, thank you!

[wisnoskij]

Why would you prefer to have it in your bashrc, and have it run every time you start up a shell? When you can just put it in your profile and just have it run once? Also, not only is the official solution more efficient, it is shell agnostic, just put it in the .profile file and it will work in all shells.

[Mishaye]

Homebrew has been great on my Mac, but I seriously didn't know it was on Linux too and I've been mostly on Linux (instead of Windows) since the LTT videos last year.