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Homebrew uninstall script
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#!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
# | |
# CLI tool for locating and removing a Homebrew installation | |
# http://brew.sh/ | |
# | |
# Copyright (C) 2014 Stephen C. Benner | |
# | |
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or | |
# (at your option) any later version. | |
# | |
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
# GNU General Public License for more details. | |
# | |
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
# | |
# Author: Stephen Benner | |
# https://github.com/SteveBenner | |
# | |
# Contributors: | |
# - @AaronKulick | |
# - @lloeki | |
# - @lewismc | |
# | |
# NOTE: This script has ONLY been tested and verified for the following operating systems: | |
# - macOS 10.9 | |
# | |
# TODO/ROADMAP | |
# - v1.1: test deletion code, make sure it can ALWAYS remove | |
# - v1.2: handle ENOENT errors (file not found) | |
# - v1.3: find and remove daemons installed by brew | |
# - v1.4: figure out why script can sometimes loop through multiple `locate_brew_path` runs | |
# - v1.5: fix git repo detection code so it doesn't break when brew is checked out but not installed | |
# - v1.6: improve script to work even without a Homebrew installation | |
# | |
require 'optparse' | |
require 'fileutils' | |
require 'open3' | |
$stdout.sync = true | |
# Default options | |
options = { | |
:quiet => false, | |
:verbose => true, | |
:dry_run => false, | |
:force => false, | |
:find_path => false | |
} | |
optparser = OptionParser.new do |opts| | |
opts.banner = 'Homebrew uninstaller' + $/ | |
opts.on('-q', '--quiet', 'Quiet mode - suppress output.') do |setting| | |
options[:quiet] = setting | |
options[:verbose] = false | |
end | |
opts.on('-v', '--verbose', 'Verbose mode - print all operations.') { |setting| options[:verbose] = setting } | |
opts.on('-d', '--dry', 'Dry run - print results, but perform no actual operations.') do |setting| | |
options[:dry_run] = setting | |
end | |
opts.on('-f', '--force', 'Forces removal of files, bypassing prompt. USE WITH CAUTION!') do |setting| | |
options[:force] = setting | |
end | |
opts.on('-p', '--find-path', 'Output homebrew location if found, then exit.') do |setting| | |
options[:find_path] = setting | |
options[:quiet] = true | |
end | |
opts.on_tail('-h', '--help', '--usage', 'Display this message.') { puts opts; exit } | |
opts.on_tail('--version', 'Display script version.') { puts opts.version; exit } | |
end | |
optparser.version = '1.0' | |
optparser.summary_width = 16 | |
optparser.parse! | |
$quiet = options[:quiet] # provides access to option value within methods | |
# Files installed into the Homebrew repository | |
BREW_LOCAL_FILES = %w[ | |
.git | |
Cellar | |
Library/brew.rb | |
Library/Homebrew | |
Library/Aliases | |
Library/Formula | |
Library/Contributions | |
Library/LinkedKegs | |
] | |
# Files that Homebrew installs into other system locations | |
BREW_SYSTEM_FILES = %W[ | |
#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Caches/Homebrew | |
#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Logs/Homebrew | |
/Library/Caches/Homebrew | |
] | |
$files = [] | |
# This function runs given command in a sub-shell, expecting the output to be the | |
# path of a Homebrew installation. If given a block, it passes the shell output to | |
# the block for processing, using the return value of the block as the new path. | |
# Known Homebrew files are then scanned for and added to the file list. Then the | |
# directory is tested for a Homebrew installation, and the git index is added if | |
# a valid repo is found. The function won't run once a Homebrew installation is | |
# found, but it will accumulate untracked Homebrew files each invocation. | |
# | |
# @param [String] cmd A shell command to run | |
# @param [String] error_msg Message to print if command fails | |
# | |
def locate_brew_path(cmd, error_msg = 'check homebrew installation and PATH.') | |
return if $brew_location # stop testing if we find a valid Homebrew installation | |
puts "Searching for homewbrew installation using '#{cmd}'..." unless $quiet | |
# Run given shell command along with any code passed-in via block | |
path = `#{cmd}`.chomp | |
path = yield(path) if block_given? # pass command output to your own fancy code block | |
begin | |
Dir.chdir(path) do | |
# Search for known Homebrew files and folders, regardless of git presence | |
$files += BREW_LOCAL_FILES.select { |file| File.exist? file }.map {|file| File.expand_path file } | |
$files += Dir.glob('**/{man,bin}/**/brew*') | |
# Test for Homebrew git repository (use popen3 so we can suppress git error output) | |
repo_name = Open3.popen3('git remote -v') do |stdin, stdout, stderr| | |
stderr.close | |
stdout.read | |
end | |
if repo_name =~ /homebrew.git|Homebrew/ | |
$brew_location = path | |
else | |
return | |
end | |
end | |
rescue StandardError # on normal errors, continue program | |
return | |
end | |
end | |
# Attempt to locate homebrew installation using a command and optional code block | |
# for processing the command results. Locating a valid path halts searching. | |
# TODO: Improve this code - refactor and add error handling | |
locate_brew_path 'brew --prefix' | |
locate_brew_path('which brew') { |output| File.expand_path('../..', output) } | |
locate_brew_path('command -v brew') { |output| File.expand_path('../..', output) } | |
locate_brew_path 'brew --prefix' do |output| | |
output = output.split($/).first | |
File.expand_path('../..', output) | |
end | |
# Found Homebrew installation | |
if $brew_location | |
if options[:find_path] | |
puts $brew_location | |
exit | |
end | |
unless options[:quiet] | |
puts "Homebrew found at: #{$brew_location}" | |
begin # record kegs and taps for later output | |
brewed = `brew list` | |
tapped = `brew tap` | |
rescue StandardError | |
end | |
end | |
# Collect files indexed by git | |
begin | |
Dir.chdir($brew_location) do | |
# Update file list (use popen3 so we can suppress git error output) | |
Open3.popen3('git checkout master') { |stdin, stdout, stderr| stderr.close } | |
$files += `git ls-files`.split.map {|file| File.expand_path file } | |
end | |
rescue StandardError => e | |
puts e # Report any errors, but continue the script and collect any last files | |
end | |
end | |
# Collect any files Homebrew may have installed throughout our system | |
$files += BREW_SYSTEM_FILES.select { |file| File.exist? file } | |
abort 'Failed to locate any homebrew files!' if $files.empty? | |
# DESTROY! DESTROY! DESTROY! | |
unless options[:force] | |
print "Delete #{$files.count} files? " | |
abort unless gets.rstrip =~ /y|yes/i | |
end | |
rm = | |
if options[:dry_run] | |
lambda { |entry| puts "deleting #{entry}" unless options[:quiet] } | |
else | |
lambda { |entry| FileUtils.rm_rf(entry, :verbose => options[:verbose]) } | |
end | |
puts 'Deleting files...' unless options[:quiet] | |
$files.each(&rm) | |
# Print a list of formulae and kegs that were removed as part of the uninstall process | |
if brewed | |
puts | |
puts 'The following previously installed formulae were removed:' | |
puts brewed | |
end | |
if tapped | |
puts | |
puts 'The following previously tapped kegs were removed:' | |
puts tapped | |
end |
@Roboji, @claudia1204, @cmfrtblynmb728, @techartist, @binchuri
The output for all of your cases is similar, in that I can see a couple different possible bugs causing the same kind of issue for all of you.
There are several fixes I am going to implement, they are documented at the top of the script. It will take some time to test, but I’m confident I will soon know why it broke.
It would be helpful for those experiencing hangups using unbrew
to kill it with CTL-C
or similar, and report any errors that show up.
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I have vestigial homebrew files, but homebrew hasn't been installed for years, so I'm looking for an uninstaller that will clean up the files without having to reinstall homebrew. Unfortunately, like the official uninstaller, this doesn't work unless homebrew is installed.