# Uninstall Homebrew

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**Published on:** 2022-12-22
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## Content

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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