README lacks any uninstall options documentation about install HOT 8 OPEN

The recommended way to keep packages the same between macs is using brew bundle, which makes all steps redundant.

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[…], should I modify my .zshrc with some PATH modification or what is right way?

The recommended way is to add eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" to your ~/.zshrc.

For reference:

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To recover a list of the Homebrew packages which installed a binary into /usr/local/bin:

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin | sed -n '/Cellar/ s!^.*/Cellar/\([^/]*\)/.*!\1!p' | sort -u

Edit: better

$ ls /usr/local/Cellar
$ ls /usr/local/Caskroom

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Is there still something actionable on our side? Is a documentation update still necessary?

It's the first complaint we get about that lack of documentation (thanks by the way :)), so I am wondering how much effort we should put into this.

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I think that the fact that the uninstaller doesn't work in the arch migration case is very confusing. When you have a broken Homebrew install, the last recourse is to cleanup everything and restart from fresh, but in the migration case that doesn't work as the uninstaller is locked on the current system arch. This failure is adding insult to injury.

I know that even if someone was writing a migration tool (I would be tempted to do it for my own usage, but it is just short term), no one would be interested in maintaining it, so that would only lead to more pain for users.

So, it would be appreciated to have:

• tooling to cleanup Homebrew whether it is installed into /usr/local/bin or /opt/homebrew independently of the native arch (that might be just shell commands documented in the README)
• instructions in README or FAQ to document that tooling and link to the use cases (What to do in case of "Bad CPU type in executable"?)

With some guidance about where to submit changes and in which format, I could submit some of the changes myself.

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I think that the fact that the uninstaller doesn't work in the arch migration case is very confusing.

By default it uninstalls the default Homebrew, https://github.com/Homebrew/install?tab=readme-ov-file#uninstall-homebrew suggests running it with --help though. That shows how to "cleanup Homebrew whether it is installed into /usr/local/bin or /opt/homebrew independently of the native arch"

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By default it uninstalls the default Homebrew, https://github.com/Homebrew/install?tab=readme-ov-file#uninstall-homebrew suggests running it with --help though. That shows how to "cleanup Homebrew whether it is installed into /usr/local/bin or /opt/homebrew independently of the native arch"

I could see an argument that some of the uninstall options could be spelled out in the README so am rescoping this issue to that goal.

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I have run on the same issue.

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/brew
rm -rf /opt/homebrew/*
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

and then reinstall and run

eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

and this requires me to run the command above each time I open new terminal session, should I modify my .zshrc with some PATH modification or what is right way?

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