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# Homebrew
# Homebrew for Linux ARM

> [!CAUTION] **This Fork**
> Since this is an unsupported hack, this may eventually break.
> [!NOTE] **How to use**
>
> All this fork does is _hack_ to allow ruby installed by rbenv to be used instead of `/usr/bin/ruby`:
> [GitHub commit - Allow ruby from rbenv to take precedence](https://github.com/huyz/brew-for-linux-arm/commit/18f7e3d5a54078201430fade8ab76fadd9b282ea):
>
> ```bash
> # filter the user environment
> PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
> PATH="${HOME}/.rbenv/shims:${PATH}"
>
> #FILTERED_ENV=()
> FILTERED_ENV=("RBENV_VERSION=${RBENV_VERSION-}")
> ```
>
>
> To install this Homebrew, you'll first have to install `rbenv` (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04's version from `apt` is ok):
>
> ```shell
> git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build # apt's ruby-build is too out of date
> #sudo apt install libyaml-dev
> #sudo dnf install libyaml-devel
> rbenv install 3.3.3
> rbenv shell 3.3.3
> export HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE=https://github.com/huyz/brew-for-linux-arm
> export HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1
> /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh | sed '532s/abort/warn/')"
> ```
>
> You'll also need to add the core tap back (nowadays deprecated):
>
> ```shell
> brew tap homebrew/core
> ```
>
> After installation, to run `brew` you should probably create a `brew` wrapper that contains:
>
> ```bash
> #!/bin/bash
> [[ -d ~/.rbenv/bin ]] && export PATH="~/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
> if command -v rbenv &>/dev/null; then
> export PATH="${PATH//$(rbenv root)\/shims:/}"
> eval "$(rbenv init -)"
> rbenv shell 3.3.3
> else
> echo "Warning: rbenv not found" >&2
> fi
> HOMEBREW_BREW_GIT_REMOTE=https://github.com/huyz/brew-for-linux-arm HOMEBREW_DEVELOPER=1 exec /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew "$@"
> ```
> [!IMPORTANT] **Partial solution**
> Of course, this is only half the battle. Many official formulas won't work because they weren't
> written with Linux ARM in mind. (For example, as of 2024-07-19, the rust formula will fail to build.)
> [!WARNING] I'll try to regularly rebase my changes on top of the latest upstream commits, and then
> I'll force push the new rebased commits. So you might need to `reset --hard` after fetching
> updates for this repo
[![GitHub release](https://img.shields.io/github/release/Homebrew/brew.svg)](https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases)
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