Paths of sudoless brew on Linux

[abitrolly]

I am not a brew user. Just found https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux

Can install software to your home directory and so does not require sudo

Where does it download binaries and where it symlinks them when installed without sudo?

[gromgit]

From the page you pointed to, in the section after the one you quoted:

The installation script installs Homebrew to /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew using sudo if possible and in your home directory at ~/.linuxbrew otherwise.

[abitrolly]

@gromgit where it installs executables for other packages, and how do they appear in my path without sudo?

[jonchang]

You’d have to add Homebrew to your path yourself.

[abitrolly]

Ok. That will install only brew binary. What about other installed binaries?

Nevermind, everything goes into $HOME/.linuxbrew/bin.

[abitrolly]

Answering my own question. After installing, brew appears in $HOME/.linuxbrew/bin and not added to $PATH.

➜  ~ ls -la .linuxbrew/bin 
total 8
drwxrwxr-x.  2 anatoli anatoli 4096 Nov  8 14:27 .
drwxr-xr-x. 14 anatoli anatoli 4096 Nov  8 14:26 ..
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 anatoli anatoli   42 Nov  8 14:27 brew -> /home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/bin/brew

After installing k9s with .linuxbrew/bin/brew install k9s, the .linuxbrew/bin gets more symlinks.

➜  ~ ls -la .linuxbrew/bin          
total 8
drwxrwxr-x.  2 anatoli anatoli 4096 Nov  9 07:01 .
drwxr-xr-x. 14 anatoli anatoli 4096 Nov  8 14:26 ..
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 anatoli anatoli   42 Nov  8 14:27 brew -> /home/anatoli/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/bin/brew
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 anatoli anatoli   28 Nov  9 07:01 k9s -> ../Cellar/k9s/0.23.9/bin/k9s
-rw-r--r--.  1 anatoli anatoli    0 Nov  9 07:00 .keepme
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 anatoli anatoli   36 Nov  9 07:01 patchelf -> ../Cellar/patchelf/0.11/bin/patchelf

All paths related to k9s binary.

➜  ~ fd k9s -H                      
.cache/Homebrew/downloads/5f932f171a96027953b2736e24c3bb1b5d33164683da27bcb74f0984bedbc1ce--k9s-0.23.9.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
.cache/Homebrew/k9s--0.23.9.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
.linuxbrew/var/homebrew/linked/k9s
.linuxbrew/Cellar/k9s
.linuxbrew/opt/k9s
.linuxbrew/Cellar/k9s/0.23.9/.brew/k9s.rb
.linuxbrew/Cellar/k9s/0.23.9/bin/k9s
.linuxbrew/bin/k9s