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Installing a specific version with Homebrew

The Internet has documented several ways of installing a specific version of a piece of software using Homebrew. None of them seem to work anymore. It seems like a feature that the developers of Homebrew do not want to support fully or at all.

A way of installing a specific version is by executing the following commands. The following assumes that we want to install version 3.24.0 of a package named foo.

Start by creating a new tap. The tap can contain multiple formula so we name it something generic.

brew tap-new simonbs/extracted

Then extract the formula into the local tap.

brew extract foo simonbs/extracted --version 3.24.0

Finally, install the package.

brew install simonbs/extracted/[email protected]
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