How to install homebrew packages locally

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Ford Smith picture Ford Smith · Mar 3, 2016 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

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?

Answer

bfontaine picture bfontaine · Mar 8, 2016

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.

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