I got homebrew installed, however I do not have admin access. How do I install homebrew packages without admin access? Is there a local tag or something that I keep missing?
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Homebrew needs /usr/local to be chown-ed to your user, and you need sudo for that. If you can’t you have to install it elsewhere. Some people use ~/.brew or ~/homebrew; you can use anything but avoid paths with spaces. See the docs here.
Let’s say you want to install in ~/.brew; run the following command:
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew ~/.brew
Then ensure the bin and sbin directories are in your PATH. If you’re using Bash add the following in your ~/.bash_profile:
export PATH="$HOME/.brew/bin:$HOME/.brew/sbin:$PATH"
Run source ~/.bash_profile or restart your shell and run brew doctor to see if it’s installed correctly. It should warn you it’s not installed into /usr/local but that’s expected here.
answered Mar 8, 2016 at 12:17
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2I just want to add that, to make this work I had to run
brew updatefirst! Commented May 12, 2017 at 15:58 -
We ran this when the current version of brew was 2.1.4. These instructions yielded brew v1.7.x, which we easily
brew upgraded immediately. No sudo required! We did have to manually add the location of brew to thePATH, which is not mentioned).– TomCommented May 28, 2019 at 20:12 -
Currently, the docs provided for homebrew (legacy) is now outdated. (last commit) See the new updated link (commit)– user14098813Commented Jun 4, 2021 at 17:17
To install homebrew without sudo.
git clone https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git
echo 'export PATH="/path/to/cloned_folder/homebrew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
Update the
/path/to/cloned_folderwith the path of the homebrew cloned folder.
Restart terminal and run
brew update
brew --version
answered Sep 24, 2018 at 6:19
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Agreeing to the Xcode/iOS license requires admin privileges, please re-run as root via sudo.– WilliamKCommented Mar 26, 2020 at 2:08
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But running OSX as the root user gets things moving, such as viewing and agreeing to the software licence.– WilliamKCommented Mar 26, 2020 at 2:23
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@WilliamK, folder path is where you have done the git clone of hombrew. I mean that much you have think from your side. Commented Mar 26, 2020 at 4:48
git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
pwd
echo 'export PATH="*RESULT_OF_PWD*/brew/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
if it's for programming/building purposes you could also is easy to download the formula, extract the download url, and unzip it in your prefix (is your local folder): it's json https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula/gtk+3.json
