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add flag to allow installing as root
Emma-Fitzmaurice Aug 19, 2025
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Document `ALLOWROOT` flag
Emma-Fitzmaurice Aug 19, 2025
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions README.md
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Expand Up @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ If you want to run the Homebrew installer non-interactively without prompting fo
NONINTERACTIVE=1 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
```

By default the script will not run as root as this gives exessively high permissions which could potentially lead to issues. If you need to overide this you can prefix `ALLOWROOT=1` to the command (similarly to `NONINTERACTIVE` above).

## Uninstall Homebrew

```bash
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fi
HOMEBREW_CORE="${HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY}/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"

check_run_command_as_root
if [[ -z "${ALLOWROOT-}" ]]
then
check_run_command_as_root
fi

if [[ -d "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}" && ! -x "${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}" ]]
then
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