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Uninstall brew package and dependencies

Remove package's dependencies (does not remove package):

brew deps [FORMULA] | xargs brew remove --ignore-dependencies

Remove package:

brew remove [FORMULA]

Reinstall missing libraries:

brew missing | cut -d: -f2 | sort | uniq | xargs brew install
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seguri commented Dec 14, 2020

Original source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41748156/1521064

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squm commented May 16, 2021

brew autoremove

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brew autoremove

It works!

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pmsaue0 commented Jan 15, 2022

brew uninstall [formula] ; brew autoremove

FTW

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