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Diana MacDonald: Diving Deeper Into Homebrew to Better Manage Packages on Your macOS Machine

add a tap (a kind of “repository”): brew tap <user>/<repo>

show all (additional) taps: brew tap

show tap information: brew tap-info -v <tap>

install formula/cask: brew install [--cask] <formula>

remove formula/cask: brew uninstall <formula>

remove unused formulas (may be as dry-run): brew autoremove [--dry-run]

list installed formula/cask: brew list --versions

list formula/cask which are not dependencies: brew leaves

show all out-dated formula/cask: brew outdated

update Homebrew itself: brew update

update all installed formula/cask: brew upgrade [--dry-run]

remove old downloads/formula/cask: brew cleanup [--dry-run]

check for potential problems: brew doctor

show formula/cask information: brew info <formula>

show dependencies of formula/cask: brew deps <formula>

show all formula/cask depending on formula: brew uses --installed <formula>

show Homebrew configuration: brew config