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How To Download Homebrew On macOS Catalina

Are you ready to download Homebrew on macOS Catalina? Homebrew is an amazing package managing tool. It’s more popular on Linux but forcefully use on macOS. However, for apps that are installed as packages, Homebrew is the simplest and easiest way to delete them. Come let’s check how you can install Homebrew on macOS Catalina.

Xcode

If you want to install Homebrew on macOS Catalina, then firstly you installed Xcode. You can get the Xcode from the Mac App Store. The app is very large and for whatever reason, it installs very slow when you get it from the Mac App Store so you’re in after a few minutes.

Once it installed successfully, you also want to install Command Line Tools for it. If you want to download Command Line Tools, simply open Terminal and input the following command.

xcode-select –install

You will then view a prompt asking you to confirm that you like to install the tools. Also, you will view a EULA that you have to agree to.

The Command-Line Tools can’t take too much time to install. Once it ends you can simply install Homebrew.

Install Homebrew

Head over to Terminal and execute the following command.

/usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/

Make sure that you want to install Homebrew. If the Terminal will display you all the modification it will be making i.e. create new directories it will make when it is downloaded. Make sure that you like to install it.

After that, simply wait for the installation to finishes. Once it’s done, you will then view a message in Terminal confirming that installation was successful. Now you close Terminal.

If you want to check the Homebrew installation, then you can execute the following command in Terminal.

brew -v

The command will return back which models of Homebrew is installed on your Mac.

If you like to uninstall Homebrew, then execute the following command in Terminal.

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)”

Homebrew has lots of documentation available. So if you don’t know how to use it, head over through the documentation. You can install the apps using Homebrew certainly provide the command that you want to execute to install them. Basically they come using a script that can be executed using Homebrew and the script takes proper care of the installation. If the script is available that is uninstall, you can execute it to delete the app.

Make sure that apps you install using Homebrew still have to be 64-bit while installing them on Catalina. Homebrew can’t enable users to pass the 64-bit condition that Catalina has. However, Homebrew had to update to a Catalina support version so it’s not seen that you can install older versions of it.

Conclusion:

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