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Asked: 2026-06-14T08:50:00+00:00

I seem to have dug myself into a corner. I was halfway through installing

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I seem to have dug myself into a corner.

I was halfway through installing Homebrew the first time and it got stuck. After ~15 minutes of waiting I quit terminal. My original input was what’s from the homebrew homepage.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

I reopened terminal and tried to re-install and got –

It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

So, as suggested, I ran

rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

and got

-bash: brew: command not found

I tried to run the uninstall script from the Homebrew FAQ and that didn’t seem to help either. Anything else I can try? How would I manually uninstall?

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  1. Editorial Team

    So what happens now if you run ruby -e “$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)” again?

    After you killed terminal did you ps auxw | grep -E ‘ruby|curl’ and kill those?

    Are you using /usr/local for anything else? If not, you can rm -rf /usr/local and run the install command again.

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