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Waylon Walker
Waylon Walker

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Installing Homebrew on Linux

Installing brew on linux proved quite easy and got pyenv running for me within 4 commands.

I had never used homebrew before, honestly I thought it was a mac only thing for years. Today I wanted to try out pyenv, and the recommended way to install was using homebrew. I am not yet sure if I want either in my normal workflow, so for now I am just going to pop open a new terminal and install homebrew and see how it goes.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
echo 'eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /home/walkers/.zprofile
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
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That was it, now homebrew is working. Starting a new shell and running the command to install pyenv worked.

brew install pyenv
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Chris Bongers

Homebrew, mens best friend

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Waylon Walker

What do you use homebrew for? I found another way to get pyenv and am on the fence of not adding homebrew to the normal workflow.

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Chris Bongers

I generally use homebrew for installing everything, even applications on mac.
Just takes away the hassle of having to do anything really.