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tmschl
tmschl

Reputation: 107

Homebrew is halfway installed. Can't re-install or uninstall - How can I manually uninstall?

I seem to have dug myself into a corner.

I was halfway through installing Homebrew the first time and it got stuck. After ~15 minutes of waiting I quit terminal. My original input was what's from the homebrew homepage.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

I reopened terminal and tried to re-install and got -

It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

So, as suggested, I ran

rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

and got

-bash: brew: command not found

I tried to run the uninstall script from the Homebrew FAQ and that didn't seem to help either. Anything else I can try? How would I manually uninstall?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 6746

Answers (3)

deiza
deiza

Reputation: 15

If you run rm -rf /usr/local you might get permission denied or risk deleting files of other installed programs. Deleting only /usr/local/Homebrew/ folder worked for me

Upvotes: 0

ha404
ha404

Reputation: 2029

I'm not a pro at terminal but I found a line in my .gitconfig that prevented me from running the install:

[push]
    default = simple

After commenting that line out of my .gitconfig the install ran beautifully.

Upvotes: 0

jrwren
jrwren

Reputation: 17898

So what happens now if you run ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)" again?

After you killed terminal did you ps auxw | grep -E 'ruby|curl' and kill those?

Are you using /usr/local for anything else? If not, you can rm -rf /usr/local and run the install command again.

Upvotes: 2

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