Homebrew

Features, usage and installation instructions aresummarised on the homepage.Terminology (e.g. the difference between a Cellar, Tap, Cask and so forth) isexplained here.

What Packages Are Available?

1. Typebrew formulaefor a list.
2. Or visitformulae.brew.shto browse packages online.

More Documentation

brew help,man brewor checkour documentation.

Troubleshooting

First, please runbrew updateandbrew doctor.

Second, read theTroubleshooting Checklist.

If you don't read these it will take us far longer to help you with your problem.

Donations

Homebrew is a non-profit project run entirely by unpaid volunteers. We need your funds to pay for software, hardware and hosting around continuous integration and future improvements to the project. Every donation will be spent on making Homebrew better for our users.

Please consider a regular donation throughGitHub Sponsors,Open CollectiveorPatreon.Homebrew is fiscally hosted by theOpen Source Collective.

For questions about donations, including corporate giving, please email the Homebrew PLC at[email protected].

Community

• Homebrew/discussions (forum)
• @[email protected] (Mastodon)
• @MacHomebrew (𝕏 (formerly known as Twitter))

Contributing

We'd love you to contribute to Homebrew. First, please read ourContribution GuideandCode of Conduct.

We explicitly welcome contributions from people who have never contributed to open-source before: we were all beginners once! We can help build on a partially working pull request with the aim of getting it merged. We are also actively seeking to diversify our contributors and especially welcome contributions from women from all backgrounds and people of colour.

A good starting point for contributing is to firsttaphomebrew/core,then runbrew audit --strictwith some of the packages you use (e.g.brew audit --strict wgetif you usewget) and read through the warnings. Try to fix them untilbrew audit --strictshows no results andsubmit a pull request.If no formulae you use have warnings you can runbrew audit --strictwithout arguments to have it run on all packages and pick one.

Alternatively, for something more substantial, check out one of the issues labelledhelp wantedinHomebrew/breworHomebrew/homebrew-core.

Good luck!

Security

Please report security issues by filling inthe security advisory form.

Who We Are

Homebrew'sProject LeaderisMike McQuaid.

Homebrew'sProject Leadership CommitteeisColin Dean,Issy Long,Mike McQuaid,Patrick LinnaneandVanessa Gennarelli.

Homebrew'sTechnical Steering CommitteeisBo Anderson,FX Coudert,Michka Popoff,Mike McQuaidandRylan Polster.

Homebrew's maintainers areAlexander Bayandin,Bevan Kay,Bo Anderson,Branch Vincent,Caleb Xu,Carlo Cabrera,Douglas Eichelberger,Dustin Rodrigues,Eric Knibbe,FX Coudert,Issy Long,Justin Krehel,Klaus Hipp,Markus Reiter,Miccal Matthews,Michael Cho,Michka Popoff,Mike McQuaid,Nanda H Krishna,Patrick Linnane,Razvan Azamfirei,Rui Chen,Ruoyu Zhong,Rylan Polster,Sam Ford,Sean Molenaar,Thierry Moisan,Timothy Sutton,William WoodruffandŠtefan Baebler.

Former maintainers with significant contributions includeMisty De Méo,Shaun Jackman,Vítor Galvão,Claudia Pellegrino,Seeker,Jan Viljanen,JCount,commitay,Dominyk Tiller,Tim Smith,Baptiste Fontaine,Xu Cheng,Martin Afanasjew,Brett Koonce,Charlie Sharpsteen,Jack Nagel,Adam Vandenberg,Andrew Janke,Alex Dunn,neutric,Tomasz Pajor,Uladzislau Shablinski,Alyssa Ross,ilovezfs,Chongyu Zhuand Homebrew's creator:Max Howell.

License

Code is under theBSD 2-clause "Simplified" License. Documentation is under theCreative Commons Attribution license.

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