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Uninstalling brew (so I can reinstall)

Written by Eneko Alonso on August 9, 2011 — 2 Comments

Uninstall

cd `brew —-prefix`
rm -rf Cellar
brew prune
rm -rf Library .git .gitignore bin/brew README.md share/man/man1/brew
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew

http://superuser.com/questions/203707/how-to-uninstall-homebrew-osx-packet-manager

Reinstall

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation

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2 Comments to “Uninstalling brew (so I can reinstall)”

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Ruben

September 14, 2011 at 19:14 | Permalink

Got a typo on the first line:

cd `brew –prefix` <– should be double dash
Eneko Alonso

September 15, 2011 at 14:21 | Permalink

Thanks! Actually I had it as 2 dashes, but the syntax highlighter (geshi) does something weird with them. I’ve put 4 dashes and now they show as two, but they don’t look completely right.

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