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

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

Please report security issues to [email protected].

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.

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

We accept tips through Gratipay.

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.