Installing Homebrew on Linux: Debian, Ubuntu, and RedHat

how to install homebrew on Linux

Homebrew has become pretty much the standard on macOS, but these days you can install Homebrew on Linux too. On Debian and RedHat you can manage packages with apt or dnf (yum), but Homebrew makes it easier to install and update programs that are not in those packages and are not published as a repository. For example, tools I use often such as Hugo, Docker’s docker-compose, and lazydocker have to be downloaded from the official site and swapped out every time there is an update, but this can now be simplified to something like brew update hugo, just as on macOS. [Read More]