How do I update a formula with Homebrew

Question

How do I update a formula   I ran brew update  Then  running brew outdated  outputs   mongodb  1 4 3-x86 64  lt  1 6 5-x86 64    Thus  mongodb is outdated   How do I upgrade it  Do I just uninstall and then install

User · Answer

You will first need to update the local formulas by doing

brew update

and then upgrade the package by doing

brew upgrade formula-name

An example would be if i wanted to upgrade mongodb, i would do something like this, assuming mongodb was already installed :

brew update && brew upgrade mongodb && brew cleanup mongodb

User · Answer

I prefer to upgrade all homebrew formulae and homebrew cask formulae   I added a Bourne shell function to my environment for this one  I load a  bashrc   function updatebrew     set -x  brew update  brew cleanup  brew cask upgrade --greedy        set -x for transparency  So that the terminal outputs whatever Homebrew is doing in the background  brew update to update homebrew formulas brew cleanup to remove any change left over after installations brew cask upgrade --greedy will install all casks  both those with versioning information and those without

User · Answer

You can t use brew install to upgrade an installed formula  If you want upgrade all of outdated formulas  you can use the command below   brew outdated   xargs brew upgrade

User · Answer

I think the correct way to do is      brew upgrade mongodb   It will upgrade the mongodb formula  If you want to upgrade all outdated formula  simply     brew upgrade

User · Answer

Well  I just did  brew install mongodb   and followed the instructions that were output to the STDOUT after it finished installing  and that seems to have worked just fine  I guess it kinda works just like make install and overwrites  upgrades  a previous install

User · Answer

You can update all outdated packages like so   brew install  brew outdated    or   brew outdated   xargs brew install   or  brew upgrade   This is from the brew site    for upgrading individual formula   brew install formula-name  amp  amp  brew cleanup formula-name

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