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.
- Type
brew searchfor a list. - Or visit formulae.brew.sh to browse packages online.
- Or use
brew search --desc <keyword>to browse packages from the command line.
brew help, man brew or check our documentation.
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.
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 running brew audit --strict with some of the packages you use (e.g. brew audit --strict wget if you use wget) and then 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 labeled help wanted in Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/homebrew-core.
Good luck!
Please report security issues to our HackerOne.
Homebrew's Project Leader is Mike McQuaid.
Homebrew's Project Leadership Committee is Misty De Meo, Shaun Jackman, Jonathan Chang, Mike McQuaid and Markus Reiter.
Homebrew's Technical Steering Committee is Michka Popoff, FX Coudert, Markus Reiter, Misty De Meo and Mike McQuaid.
Homebrew/brew's Linux support (and Linuxbrew) maintainers are Michka Popoff and Shaun Jackman.
Homebrew's other current maintainers are Claudia Pellegrino, Chongyu Zhu, Vitor Galvao, Gautham Goli, Steven Peters, William Woodruff, Igor Kapkov, Izaak Beekman, Sean Molenaar, Jan Viljanen, Jason Tedor, Eric Knibbe, Viktor Szakats, Thierry Moisan, Steven Peters and Tom Schoonjans.
Former maintainers with significant contributions include 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 and Homebrew's creator: Max Howell.
- discourse.brew.sh (forum)
- freenode.net#machomebrew (IRC)
- @MacHomebrew (Twitter)
Code is under the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License. Documentation is under the Creative Commons Attribution license.