Keep Your Brews Bubbly
Life is too short to have Homebrew problems. Run these commands to keep your brews bubbly.
Checks your system to make sure that future installs go smoothly:
brew doctor
Upgrades Homebrew to the latest version:
brew update
Gets a list of what packages are outdated:
brew outdated
Looks through your installed packages and deletes any old versions that may still be hanging around:
brew cleanup
You could alternatively add the --dry-run flag to cleanup to see all the outdated packages that would be removed.
Deletes old symlinks:
brew prune
Updates packages to the latest version:
brew upgrade
You can add the --cleanup flag to delete older versions of the packages you are updating.