Installing Homebrew on Linux

Homebrew is a package manager that makes installing extra software very easy. Originally it was only for Mac, but a version for linux was created that has been merged back into the main repository.

To install homebrew on linux run:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

After the installation, open a new terminal and check if the brew command works. If not, then manually add the homebrew bin folder to your path in your ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile.

export PATH="$PATH:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin" #Homebrew

The path to the homebrew maintained binaries is generally /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin, but will be ~/.linuxbrew/bin if not. This link has more details.

Now you can easily install software with brew. For example.

brew install nginx
brew install jmeter