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pan thomas
pan thomas

Reputation: 71

how to uninstall homebrew using an arm based Mac?

I installed homebrew today. And I did something wrong so that my homebrew can't work now. Since I use an arm based mac, I am hard to find solution to uninstall my homebrew which installed in /opt/homebrew/.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 22411

Answers (3)

Antoine Roy
Antoine Roy

Reputation: 1

If the steps here https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew do not work, it's probably because you installed Homebrew using Rosetta, and you are trying to remove it without using Rosetta. (To verify, navigate to /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app, right click and select Get Info)

When using Rosetta, you won't pass the check for arch -arm64 in the script.

You can probably have the same issue if you try to remove a Homebrew installed with Rosetta with Terminal not using Rosetta.

Upvotes: 0

Rimian
Rimian

Reputation: 38418

Make sure your homebrew path is correct and then run the script:

echo $HOMEBREW_PREFIX #=> /opt/homebrew                                                                            


/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

See: https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew

Upvotes: 2

Asmoun
Asmoun

Reputation: 1747

To uninstall Homebrew, run the uninstall script from the Homebrew/install repository.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"

Download the uninstall script and run /bin/bash uninstall.sh --help to view more uninstall options.

Upvotes: 8

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