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Brew Container

A distrobox (docker) image that is used for homebrew. The /home/linuxbrew will be mounted to a directory in ~/ so it will be safe if you regenerate or delete the container.

Installation

Install distrobox if you don't havw it first then run this command

distrobox create -i ghcr.io/dnkmmr69420/brew:latest -n brew-container -p

Installation with custom home

distrobox create -i ghcr.io/dnkmmr69420/brew:latest -n brew-container-custom-home -p -H ~/brew-container

Adding the bin path

Simply put this in your .bashrc file

export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/clinuxbrew/exports/bin:$PATH"

Commands

In Container

• init-brew: runs bind mounts and runs 'reload-init' if it hasn't been ran.
• reload-init Installs homebrew if not installed and does some other things as well.
• brew-export: Like distrobox-export but makes it easy to export brew bins on the host. -s flag uses brews sbin instead of bin and -r flag makes the exported bin ran as root in the container.
• brew-link: symlinks something in the bin dir to exports/bin. Only works good with certain programs
• patchelf: A utility program for modifying existing executables. I also am not the creator of this command.

On host

• cbrew: runs brew in container
• cbrewsh: shorter version of distrobox enter brew-container
• regen-cbrew: Deletes and recreats the container. Useful for updating the container. Note: Brew and its installed programs will be safe since it is stored at ~/.local/share/clinuxbrew
• ecbrew: runs commands in the brew container

Symlinks

There are a few symlinks that are created

• /brew A symlink to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew for ease to cd in
• /hbrew A symlink to the hosts brew which is /run/host/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew for it to be easier to cd in

Dependencies

These need be be on the host in order for this program to work

• Bash (should be preinstalled on nearly every single linux distro)
• Distrobox
• A container mamagement tool either Docker, Podman, or lilipod (tested on podman).