# Upgrading Elix on OSX with Brew

DevFeed: [Upgrading Elix on OSX with Brew](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/upgrading-elix-on-osx-with-brew-28162.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<http://fuzzyblog.io/blog/elixir/2022/03/22/upgrading-elix-on-osx-with-brew.html>)

Author: Fuzzygroup

Published: 2022-03-22T17:42:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Scott Johnson](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/scott-johnson.md>)

Topics: [Elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elixir.md>), [Homebrew](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homebrew.md>), [osx](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/osx.md>)

Tags: [dependency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dependency.md>), [elixir](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/elixir.md>), [osx](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/osx.md>), [packages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/packages.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>)

## AI overview

A short guide to upgrading Elixir on macOS with Homebrew. It shows how to check the installed Elixir version, verify the Homebrew installation, run the upgrade, inspect dependencies, and check the version again. The article notes that upgrading may also update additional packages.

## Source excerpt

This is simple but I keep needing to look it up. First check your elixir version: elixir -v Second confirm that you actually installed Elixir using brew: brew list | grep elixir Third do the upgrade: brew upgrade elixir Note: You are probably going to find more than just elixir itself is upgraded. Theoretically you should be able to look at just the upgrade tree with: brew deps --tree --include-build elixir and only those things will be upgraded but when I noted a much larger group of packages being upgraded which makes me suspect some kind of circular dependency that needed to be handled. Fourth check the version again: elixir -v