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Updating Homebrew may get stuck in the Updating Homebrew step for a long time in a domestic network environment.

Example: Run the brew install composer command

➜ ~ brew install composer Updating Homebrew... # If you encounter a long time stuck here, refer to the following 2 treatment methodsCopy the code

Method 1: Hold down Control + C to cancel the update

➜  ~ brew install composer
Updating Homebrew...
^C
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Pressing Control + C will show ^ con the command line, indicating that the Updating Homebrew operation has been cancelled

It will take less than a second to perform the installation we really need

➜ ~ brew install composer Updating Homebrew... ^ C = = > Satisfying dependencies = = > Downloading https://getcomposer.org/download/1.7.2/composer.phar...Copy the code

This approach is temporary and one-time

Method 2: Use Alibaba’s Homebrew mirror source for acceleration

Usually, when we execute brew command to install software, it is related to the following three warehouse addresses:

  1. brew.git
  2. homebrew-core.git
  3. homebrew-bottles

Replace all the three warehouse addresses with those provided by Alibaba through the following operations

1. Replace/restore the brew.git repository address

#Replace with alibaba's brew.git repository address:
cd "$(brew --repo)"
git remote set-url origin https://mirrors.aliyun.com/homebrew/brew.git

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#Restore to the official brew.git repository address
cd "$(brew --repo)"
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/Homebrew/brew.git
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2. Replace/restore the homebrew-core-git repository address

#Replace with alibaba homebrew-core-git repository address:
cd "$(brew --repo)/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
git remote set-url origin https://mirrors.aliyun.com/homebrew/homebrew-core.git

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#Restore to the official homebrew-core-git repository address
cd "$(brew --repo)/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
git remote set-url origin https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core.git
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3. Replace/restore homebrew-BOTTLES access address

This step depends on the shell version of your macOS system

So, first look at the shell version you’re currently using

echo $SHELL

#If your output is /bin/zsh, see? ZSH terminal operation mode
#If your output is /bin/bash, see? Bash terminal operation mode
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3.1 ZSH Terminal Operation Modes

#Replace into Alibaba homebrew-bottles.
echo 'export HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN=https://mirrors.aliyun.com/homebrew/homebrew-bottles' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

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#Restore the official homebrew-BOTTLES access address
vi ~/.zshrc
#Then, delete the HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN configuration
source ~/.zshrc
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3.2 Bash Terminal Operation Mode

#Replace Homebrew-bottles!
echo 'export HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN=https://mirrors.aliyun.com/homebrew/homebrew-bottles' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

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#Restore the official homebrew-BOTTLES access address
vi ~/.bash_profile
#Then, delete the HOMEBREW_BOTTLE_DOMAIN configuration
source ~/.bash_profile
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HomeBrew is quick to install

Automatic script (all domestic addresses) (Copy and paste the following sentence in Mac OS terminal)

/bin/zsh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://gitee.com/cunkai/HomebrewCN/raw/master/Homebrew.sh)"
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