# Uninstall Homebrew

By [jyoti.design](https://paragraph.com/@jyoti-design) · 2022-12-22

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To uninstall Homebrew, you can run the following command in your terminal:

    /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
    

This will remove Homebrew and all of its installed packages. Note that this will not remove the actual directories where Homebrew and its packages are installed (by default, these are `/usr/local/Cellar`, `/usr/local/Homebrew`, and `/usr/local/bin`), so you will need to delete these directories manually if you want to completely remove all traces of Homebrew from your system.

It's also a good idea to check if there are any other references to Homebrew in your shell configuration files (e.g., `~/.bashrc`, `~/.zshrc`) and remove them as well.

Before uninstalling Homebrew, you may want to make a list of the packages you have installed so that you can easily reinstall them later if necessary. You can do this by running the following command:

This will list all the installed packages. You can save this list to a file by running:

    brew list > brew-list.txt
    

This will create a file called `brew-list.txt` in the current directory that contains the list of installed packages. You can then use this list to reinstall the packages after uninstalling Homebrew.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

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