These formulae provide binary installs of software that, for whatever reason, aren't available or outdated in the package manager of your linux distro.
- Because of a linuxbrew limitation, this repo is named
homebrew-linuxbinary, notlinuxbrew-binary.
On GitHub, your repository must be named homebrew-something in order to use the one-argument form of brew tap. The prefix 'homebrew-' is not optional.
- Don't mess this up with homebrew's official homebrew-binary.
- This tap is ONLY for linux.
brew install athrunsun/linuxbinary/<formula>
Or brew tap athrunsun/linuxbinary and then brew install <formula>.
Or install via URL (which will not receive updates):
brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/athrunsun/homebrew-linuxbinary/master/Formula/<formula>.rb
For jetbrans softwares (intellij-idea, pycharm, datagrip, etc.), if it's not a major upgrade, you don't need to download the newer version (which is much larger than downloading a patch) with brew from this tap, instead, just check update within the software then download and apply a patch.
And to make it even more convenient, install jetbrains-toolbox from this tap with brew install athrunsun/linuxbinary/jetbrains-toolbox to manage all of your jetbrains softwares. jetbrains-toolbox is also able to update itself. 👍
Jetbrains Toolbox is able to update itself, but once you do that, new executable will be installed as ~/.local/share/JetBrains/Toolbox/bin/jetbrains-toolbox, with a desktop entry /home/athrun/.local/share/applications/jetbrains-toolbox.desktop.
So once you did the update, use the *.desktop entry (which is usually accessed in application menu of your desktop) to launch toolbox, instead of executing jbtool (which is still the old version).
brew help, man brew or check Linuxbrew's documentation.