You can just follow instructions from the Homebrew on Linux docs, but I think it is better to understand what the instructions are trying to achieve.
Understanding the installation steps can save some time
Step 1: Choose location
First of all, it is important to understand that linuxbrew will be installed on the /home directory and not inside /home/your-user (the ~ directory).
(See the reason for that at the end of answer).
Keep this in mind when you run the other steps below.
Step 2: Add linuxbrew binaries to /home :
The installation script will do it for us:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Step 3: Check that /linuxbrew was added to the relevant location
This can be done by simply navigating to /home.
Notice that the docs are showing it as a one-liner by adding test -d <linuxbrew location> before each command.
(Read more about the test command in here).
Step 4: Export relevant environment variables to terminal
We need to add linuxbrew to PATH and add some more environment variables to the current terminal.
We can just add the following exports to terminal (wait don't do it..):
export PATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin${PATH+:$PATH}";
export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew";
export HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar";
export HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew";
export MANPATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/man${MANPATH+:$MANPATH}:";
export INFOPATH="/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/share/info:${INFOPATH:-}";
Or simply run (If your linuxbrew folder is on other location then /home - change the path):
eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)
(*) Because brew command is not yet identified by the current terminal (this is what we're solving right now) we'll have to specify the full path to the brew binary: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv
Test this step by:
1 ) Run brew from current terminal to see if it identifies the command.
2 ) Run printenv and check if all environment variables were exported and that you see /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin:/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/sbin on PATH.
Step 5: Ensure step 4 is running on each terminal
We need to add step 4 to ~/.profile (in case of Debian/Ubuntu):
echo "eval \$($(brew --prefix)/bin/brew shellenv)" >> ~/.profile
For CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat - replace ~/.profile with ~/.bash_profile.
Step 6: Ensure that ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile are being executed when new terminal is opened
If you executed step 5 and failed to run brew from new terminal - add a test command like echo "Hi!" to ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile.
If you don't see Hi! when you open a new terminal - go to the terminal preferences and ensure that the attribute of 'run command as login shell' is set.
Read more in here.
Why the installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew - from here:
The installation script installs Homebrew to
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew using sudo if possible and in your home
directory at ~/.linuxbrew otherwise. Homebrew does not use sudo
after installation.
Using /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew allows the
use of more binary packages (bottles) than installing in your personal
home directory.
The prefix /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew was chosen so that users
without admin access can ask an admin to create a linuxbrew role
account and still benefit from precompiled binaries.
If you do not yourself have admin privileges, consider asking your
admin staff to create a linuxbrew role account for you with home
directory /home/linuxbrew.
