How to uninstall Homebrew Cask

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ehsanullahjan picture ehsanullahjan · Jan 4, 2015 · Viewed 68.5k times · Source

I installed Homebrew Cask for kicks as described at http://caskroom.io/. It boils down to the following command:

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
$ brew tap caskroom/versions

Homebrew Cask installed and everything was fine. Then I uninstalled Homebrew Cask like so:

$ brew untap caskroom/versions
$ brew uninstall brew-cask

Here are the current taps:

$ brew tap
homebrew/versions

Yet I see stuff from Cask when searching for items that wouldn't be part of Homebrew itself (like Graphical programs, aText, Fantastical etc.):

$ brew search atext
Caskroom/cask/atext

Though it doesn't install (as expected):

$ brew install atext 
Error: No available formula for atext
Searching formulae...
Searching taps...
Caskroom/cask/atext

So the question is why does brew search Caskroom/cask and how do I get rid of it (I don't want Homebrew telling me it has aText, for example, when it can't install it)?

I am running Mac OS X Yosemite.

Answer

nekperu15739 picture nekperu15739 · May 13, 2016

For the current version of Brew:

$ brew uninstall --cask yed

For older versions of Brew:

$ brew cask uninstall yed

the result:

==> Removing App symlink: '/Users/user/Applications/yEd.app'

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