#Uninstall homebrew mac how to#
#Uninstall homebrew mac update#
#Uninstall homebrew mac upgrade#

Not sure if that means to delete the entire /usr/local directory or not (since it looks like that's what it was attempting to do) or re-install and try again. brew uninstall git, Remove/Uninstall a package brew upgrade git, Upgrade a package brew unlink git, Unlink brew link git, Link brew switch git 2.5.0, Change. The following possible Homebrew files were not deleted: /usr/local/. /usr/local/Frameworks/ /usr/local/Homebrew/ /usr/local/anaconda3/ /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/etc/ /usr/local/include/ /usr/local/lib/ /usr/local/libexec/ /usr/local/opt/ /usr/local/remotedesktop/ /usr/local/sbin/ /usr/local/share/ /usr/local/var/ You may wish to remove them yourself.

#Uninstall homebrew mac update#

In this case, tell me to update my answer. To uninstall Homebrew, the uninstall.sh script can be used to remove the Homebrew package manager and directories. If it does not exist, it's because brew could change for the future versions (I hope not). Rmdir: /usr/local: Operation not permitted Warning: Failed during: /usr/bin/sudo rmdir /usr/local Warning: Homebrew partially uninstalled (but there were steps that failed)! To finish uninstalling rerun this script with ``sudo``. remove config: The folder was changing make sure the folder exists. I ran it without sudo and it threw the error: If you run this without sudo and it fails, you won't be able to run it with sudo again afterwards and will be left with orphaned files.

#Uninstall homebrew mac how to#

I have moved to use the M1 brew mostly, and my Intel brew has caused some linking errors, so I want to remove it completely, but without running it I don't know how to remove it.īeta Was this translation helpful? Give feedback.

The reason is simple enough: my Intel copy of homebrew is never updated, and it cannot handle the new version number. Provided you haven’t put anything else in Homebrew’s prefix ( brew -prefix ), you can generally just rm -rf that directory.

usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:28:in `block in from_symbol': unknown or unsupported macOS version: :dunno (MacOSVersionError)įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:28:in `fetch'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:28:in `from_symbol'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac.rb:28:in `version'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac.rb:65:in `prerelease?'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os.rb:38:in `'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os.rb:7:in `'įrom /System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:47:in `'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:31:in `require_relative'įrom /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:31:in `' How do I uninstall Homebrew If you installed to /usr/local then you can use the script in this gist to uninstall it will only remove Homebrew and the stuff Homebrew installed leaving anything else in /usr/local alone.