Home Brew on Windows 10

Having worked for years on a personal Apple Macbook pro, I recently had to give it away to someone.

I do have a powerful windows machine, just that it did not have brew, among other things.

Note: This page assumes you have already turned on Windows Sub system for Linux(WSL), if you have not done so, please see the page below

Do you want to run Linux on Windows 10? Use WSL, here's how.

Installing Ubuntu 20

Go to Microsoft store and install Ubuntu, as simple as that.

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/ubuntu-on-windows#1-overview

Un-Installing older versions of Bash for windows

I had installed bash on windows 10 many years ago.

CMD

C:\Users\suchak>wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu-20.04 
Legacy (Default)

Uninstalling older version

CMD

C:\Users\suchak>wsl --unregister Legacy

Check the default installation again

CMD

C:\Users\suchak>wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu-20.04 (Default)

Install and Open a terminal with Terminus

I used Iterm on my Mac. Wanted something like that on windows. After looking at various versions, I decided to give Terminus a try.

Have a look at the link below and install terminus.

Terminus

Install gcc

Brew needs gcc

Using a Terminal in terminus

sudo apt install gcc

Install Brew using “Homebrew-on-Linux”

Using a Terminal in terminus

Homebrew on Linux

Initialize Brew

Using a Terminal in terminus

brew install hello

All done!

You have Brew on windows now with a shell