Homebrew

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

What Packages Are Available?

1. Type brew formulae for a list.
2. Or visit formulae.brew.sh to browse packages online.

More Documentation

brew help, man brew or check our documentation.

Troubleshooting

First, please run brew update and brew doctor.

Second, read the Troubleshooting 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 through GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective or Patreon. Homebrew is fiscally hosted by the Open Source Collective.

For questions about donations, including corporate giving, please email the Homebrew PLC at plc@brew.sh.

Community

• Homebrew/discussions (forum)
• @homebrew@fosstodon.org (Mastodon)
• @MacHomebrew (𝕏 (formerly known as Twitter))

Contributing

We’d love you to contribute to Homebrew. First, please read our Contribution Guide and Code 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 first tap homebrew/core, then run brew audit --strict with some of the packages you use (e.g. brew audit --strict wget if you use wget) and read through the warnings. Try to fix them until brew audit --strict shows no results and submit a pull request. If no formulae you use have warnings you can run brew audit --strict without arguments to have it run on all packages and pick one.

Alternatively, for something more substantial, check out one of the issues labelled help wanted in Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core.

Good luck!

Security

Please report security issues by filling in the security advisory form.

Who We Are

Homebrew’s Project Leader is Mike McQuaid.

Homebrew’s Project Leadership Committee is Colin Dean, Issy Long, Mike McQuaid, Patrick Linnane and Vanessa Gennarelli.

Homebrew’s Technical Steering Committee is Bo Anderson, FX Coudert, Michka Popoff, Mike McQuaid and Rylan Polster.

Homebrew’s maintainers are Alexander Bayandin, Bevan Kay, Bo Anderson, Branch Vincent, Caleb Xu, Carlo Cabrera, David Baumgold, Douglas Eichelberger, Dustin Rodrigues, Eric Knibbe, FX Coudert, Issy Long, Justin Krehel, 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 and William Woodruff.

Former maintainers with significant contributions include Misty 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 Zhu and Homebrew’s creator: Max Howell.

License

Code is under the BSD 2-clause “Simplified” License. Documentation is under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Sponsors

Our macOS continuous integration infrastructure is hosted by MacStadium’s Orka.

Secure password storage and syncing is provided by 1Password for Teams.

Flaky test detection and tracking is provided by BuildPulse.

https://brew.sh’s DNS is resolving with DNSimple.

Homebrew is generously supported by GitHub, Custom Ink, Randy Reddig, Codecademy, MacPaw Inc., fly.io, Workbrew and many other users and organisations via GitHub Sponsors.