How to uninstall Homebrew Cask
I installed Homebrew Cask for kicks as described at http://caskroom.io/. It boils down to the following command:
$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
$ brew tap caskroom/versions
Homebrew Cask installed and everything was fine. Then I uninstalled Homebrew Cask like so:
$ brew untap caskroom/versions
$ brew uninstall brew-cask
Here are the current taps:
$ brew tap
homebrew/versions
Yet I see stuff from Cask when searching for items that wouldn't be part of Homebrew itself (like Graphical programs, aText, Fantastical etc.):
$ brew search atext
Caskroom/cask/atext
Though it doesn't install (as expected):
$ brew install atext
Error: No available formula for atext
Searching formulae...
Searching taps...
Caskroom/cask/atext
So the question is why does brew search Caskroom/cask and how do I get rid of it (I don't want Homebrew telling me it has aText, for example, when it can't install it)?
I am running Mac OS X Yosemite.
For the current version of Brew:
$ brew uninstall --cask yed
For older versions of Brew:
$ brew cask uninstall yed
the result:
==> Removing App symlink: '/Users/user/Applications/yEd.app'
As of Homebrew version 0.9.5, it appears that brew search will find items in Caskroom/cask/ without actually having Homebrew Cask installed. You can also install them, but this will actually install brew-cask as a dependency along the way.
Try:
brew install Caskroom/cask/atext
Command the terminal to "untap" at the prompt [MacOS Catalina 10.15.2]
Run
brew untap homebrew/cask-fonts
Expected output
Untapping homebrew/cask-fonts...
Untapped 1571 casks (1,713 files, 11.4MB)
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brew CASK uninstall <name>. This is what I was looking for.