If you have Homebrew installed on your Mac to use as a UNIX package manager and command-line tool, you may have installed some packages that are considered useful to you as well. But what if you no longer need it and want to install a specific hombre package? So, you can uninstall packages with Homebrew.
It turns out that removing packages/formulas with Hombrew is as easy as installing and removing packages from Hombrew as the first installation.
Uninstall Packages with Homebrew
To be clear, we are not talking about removing ourselves from Hombre, we are only talking about removing special packages from Homebrew.
The proper way to remove the Homebrew package is to use the Delete or Delete command.
Below are the requirements that Mac users must meet before installing Hombrev Package Manager:
- macOS Mojave 10.14 or later.
- Apple 64-bit system or silicon processor
Xcode command-line tool
It is always better to install Hombreau and it is packed in several folders, it is recommended below to install Hombreau depending on the architecture of your processor:
- / usr / locally on Intel macOS
- / opt / homebrew on macOS ARM (M1)
The Remove command for the Homebrew package looks like this:
- brew uninstall packageName
The Homebrew removal command looks like this:
- brew remove packageName
As you can guess, the installation and installation commands are the same and get the same results as when you install the Homebrew package.
For example, to install and remove Telnet (if you have Telnet installed with Homebrew on a Mac), use the following command line:
- brew uninstall telnet
Or you can use the delete command to get the same effect:
- brew remove telnet
You can quickly install packages from Homebrew because you do not need to download anything, it just removes the homebrew package from your Mac.
You can verify that the package has been removed by trying again or by checking the removed command where the hombre package is installed and you will see that the removed package is no longer available.
Additional Homebrew Package Uninstall Options
There are two flags you can also send to the Homebrew uninstall command. – Strength and – Observation – Dependence.
- The -force (or -f) flag will forcibly remove the package, eliminating all versions of this package/formula.
- The -ignore-dependencies check box appears to override the dependencies in the corresponding formula when deleting a specific packet.
One thing to keep in mind when installing and installing a package from Hombre is that because the installed package is used by a package or other formula, this may be the fault of the secondary package. Perhaps the easiest way to prevent this is to use ignore addictions as an alternative. Example:
- brew uninstall –ignore-dependencies telnet
If you are not sure which one depends on the specific hombre package, you can use the dps command to find them:
- brew deps packageName
For example, if you are installing python3 on a Mac using the Homebrew method with the correct number, the command line should look like this:
- % brew deps python3
- gdbm
- openssl
- readline
- sqlite
- xz
Since many other packages also use dependencies, if you need to remove python3, you really want to check -ignore-dependencies. The same goes for node.js and npm and many other popular home packs. You can also uninstall the Nvidia Cuda toolkit by this post.
