Homebrew

Features, usage and installation instructions are summarised on the homepage.

What Packages Are Available?

1. Type brew search for a list.
2. Or visit braumeister.org to browse packages online.
3. Or use brew search --desc to browse packages from the command line.

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.

Security

Please report security issues to [email protected].

This is our PGP key which is valid until June 17, 2016.

• Key ID: CE59E297
• Fingeprint: C657 8F76 2E23 441E C879 EC5C E33A 3D3C CE59 E297
• Full key: https://keybase.io/homebrew/key.asc

Who Are You?

Homebrew's current maintainers are Misty De Meo, Adam Vandenberg, Jack Nagel, Xu Cheng, Mike McQuaid, Baptiste Fontaine, Brett Koonce, Dominyk Tiller and Tim Smith.

Homebrew was originally created by Max Howell.

License

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license.

Donations

We accept tips through Gratipay.

Sponsors

Our CI infrastructure was paid for by our Kickstarter supporters.

Our CI infrastructure is hosted by The Positive Internet Company.

Our bottles (binary packages) are hosted by Bintray.