System for installing command-line Unix applications and tools on Mac OS X. Free and open-source.
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Problems with apache after update of php and mysql using homebrew
I am hoping someone here can assist me.
I upgraded php and related files using brew upgrade on my mac which is running Mac OS X 10.8.3. Everything was working fine before and I just wanted to update.
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Least intrusive way to install Ruby 1.9 on a borrowed MacBook?
I need to use Ruby 1.9 for a programming test, and I'll be borrowing my dad's MacBook Air to do so. He's running OSX 10.7.5 and has Ruby 1.8.7
What's the least "invasive" way to install a newer ...
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install opencv with cuda support and.. brew
i have installed opencv with brew and everything is magically ok. now i want to try to recompile by myself with cuda support.
for this i have to download opencv, change a line in CMakeList.txt ...
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How to download the Command Line Tools for Xcode without the Downloads for Developers webpage?
I'm trying to install the Command Line Tools for Xcode so that I can use homebrew to install some packages I need for some rudimentary programming exercises; I would rather not install the entirety of ...
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OS X application manager
Unix-sytled, "package managers" like Fink, Homebrew, and MacPorts do a good job of managing 'headless' libraries. I would like something similar to manage OS X applications with a GUI.
I am hoping ...
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git doesn't work anymore after moving user home to external drive
I've moved my users home directory from /Users/romeovs to /Volumes/DATA/home and ever since I get a git error.
Whenever I use git clone or git init it replies:
fatal: Failed to expand user dir in: ...
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Installing gcc47 as default using Homebrew
I'm trying to install gcc47 as my default compiler using homebrew. I can successfully install gcc47, but it adds a -4.7 suffix on all of its binaries. If I try to symlink it in /usr/local/bin things ...
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Homebrew installed PostgreSQL for use by multiple accounts
I'm using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL (PG) on a MacBook Air.
admin user brew installed PostgreSQL.
I'd like another (mobile account) user to be able to use the database for Rails development. ...
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How can I install tk on OS X?
I am getting warnings and empty popup boxes when compiling and loading R packages that depend on tk. They say that tk was not installed correctly.
I am using homebrew, but I can't tell which package ...
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How to install g++-45 with Homebrew
I have installed gcc45 by using brew tap homebrew/versions & brew install gcc45. However, I can not find g++-4.5 in /usr/local/bin. How can I install g++-4.5 separately by Homebrew? Thanks.
My ...
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How to use Homebrew to install local archive
I'm trying to use Homebrew to install wget, but something is happening where the download is always corrupt. This happens for all packages, not just wget. I can download the tar.gz fine through a ...
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Alternative to “luit” which is available via homebrew
I have a few legacy commands which I need to run in the terminal. Unfortunately they only work with ISO-8859-1 encoding being used.
For now I manually switch the terminal encoding, but that bugs me. ...
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Problem updating homebrew
Trying to update homebrew, I get this:
$ brew update
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
.gitignore
Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh
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Where does homebrew log?
Does homebrew keep logs, and if so where?
I did a brew update which broke python support in macvim, and now I can't even get macvim to build. I'm hoping that there are some clues in the log.
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Change ownership of all files, from one owner to another
I changed the shortname of my user account, but it seems to have caused an issue with some files (especially homebrew stuff), which are still owned by the old username. My old short name was cannyboy, ...
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Homebrew LoadError no such file to load
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7.5 on which I installed Homebrew some time ago. When trying to go into the brew directory with
cd `brew --prefix`
I'm getting the following error:
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How to cleanly remove Homebrew
How can I cleanly remove Homebrew. I might have a faulty older installation, and I'd like to have a fresh start.
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How to cleanly remove MacPorts
I'd like to cleanly remove all changes made by MacPorts as well as MacPorts itself, to try my luck with homebrew. How can I do that?
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How to correctly handle two different versions running commands from Terminal?
I've download ctags from Homebrew, which was installed in /usr/local/bin/ctags. Currently I have an older version of 'ctags' which is located in /usr/bin/ctags/.
I want the new version to be the ...
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How should I fix my Homebrew installation after upgrading OS X?
Context
My employer gave me a MacBook Pro for development work; however, most of the development work I do in my research group is for Linux platforms, and for a host of policy reasons, I can't ...
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Using gwhois on OSX
How does one install gwhois on a Mac? I'm already up and running with Homebrew; I assume that there's some magic perl configuration required before it will run.
I've tried the following:
brew ...
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Homebrew: change name of group ownership in /usr/local/ so admins and standard users can brew
I have a local admin user and a few "network" mobile users (without admin privileges) who need to be able to brew on a Mac. So, these 'network' users are not members of the group admin and probably ...
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brew doctor get warning on opencv
i'm new to mac os x. i read that homebrew is a good packet manager and i have tried it.
i have also read that to install opencv 2.4 i have to follow those steps:
install cmake via homebrew
download ...
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A lot of problems with Homebrew
This is probably bad form for this board, and feel free to delete it if it is, but running brew doctor reveals the following:
Warning: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig isn't writable.
This can happen if you ...
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What does “brew --HEAD” mean?
I've seen it mentioned several times to fix issues with some packages, that it installs newer versions of packages somehow. But I've been unable to find a clear explanation of what that option really ...
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I got an image on terminal from the output of homebrew package manager
I got a strange image from the output of brew like this . I'm curious about this behaviour. Is this a feature of brew or the image comes from some special character set? If a character in some ...
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Can't install Homebrew on MacBook Pro, password field won't input
I need to install Homebrew. I am unable to input the password when prompted in the Terminal - nothing happens when I type, only when I hit enter. I follow the instructions specified in the book I'm ...
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Error while installing Homebrew on Lion
I started installing Homebrew on my Mac Lion v10.7.4 but got the following error.
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
Failed during: Error: /usr/bin/xcode-select returned unexpected error. ...
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Unable to install softwares using Home Brew
I am unable to install any softwares using homebrew. I get the following error when I try to install any softwares.
Rahuls-iMac:local rahuljeevanandam$ brew install mysql
==> Installing ...
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Installed application using brew, but now it's saying it can't find it?
I have installed an application (dsniff) using brew, but when I try to run it I get a "Command not found" error. I even tried going to the directory it was installed to:
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Can homebrew and RVM agree on a $PATH?
I'm trying to install Yeoman.io and part of it requires Homebrew to be installed. I am on Mountain Lion (10.8) and things seemed to install correctly except when I run $ homebrew doctor it complains ...
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Installing Xcode via command line
I am a Linux user and have never used OSX before. I need to help someone install some stuff on an OSX "Lion" server, and I asked him to give me an SSH shell, assuming that would be sufficient. However ...
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ssh fails: image not found [preauth]
When I try to SSH to my computer, ssh fails with this error:
MothershipKuyan:~ kuyan$ ssh kuyan@localhost
Connection closed by ::1
This also happens when I attempt to SSH to my user from another ...
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`brew doctor` gives warning for newly opened terminal windows
When I run brew doctor I get this warning:
Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
TONS of people with the same problem, but they solve it by running this:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
Which ...
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How can I (re)create development and build tools on a corrupt installation?
On my previous computer I had Xcode working nicely; on my present computer, with Homebrew installed, gcc and make are present in /Developer/usr/bin but not /usr/bin. On the whole when I try to ...
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Install wine via Homebrew: Problem with zlib [closed]
I've got a problem with my installation of wine. (OS 10.8.2, XCode 4.5.2)
With the information I found, I already fixed a few errors, but now I'm stuck on a missing component called 'zlib' and I ...
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Installing wine with osxwinebuilder
I try to install wine with osxwinebuilder. When I do, I get the following error:
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checking if ccache g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if ccache g++ supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
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How can I resolve a permission error when installing gnuplot from homebrew?
I am trying to install gnuplot on my mac. after trying brew install gnuplot, I get the following errors:
You must 'brew link lua jpeg' before gnuplot can be installed
And when I try ...
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echo $PATH giving different result to what .bash_profile states
I'm trying to install Homebrew (to then install RVM, then Octopress).
Homebrew is installed but when I run brew doctor I get the message:
Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin
occurs ...
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uninstall Net-SNMP?
I want to install my own Net-SNMP because the preinstalled Net-SNMP is too old. But when I install a newer Net-SNMP via Homebrew, my path doesn't use the latest Net-SNMP.
I would think the best ...
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Missing glibtoolize
One package I want to install (lua-posix) needs glibtoolize, where do I get that? I installed XCode and that Development Console Tools stuff, brew doctor is happy, and according to the them, ...
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Installing Wine with Brew
So I try installing wine:
λ ~ → brew install wine
==> Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.4.1.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: ...
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Installing wine with homebrew
So, I am running a bit of a different install. Here's the background:
I have installed wine before with MacPorts.
Later, I decided to install homebrew.
Then, wine didn't work so I tried brew install ...
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“brew link node” creates/removes different number of symlinks when repeated
I was upgrading Node.js node through Homebrew's brew upgrade, and it didn't link correctly.
$ brew update
(snip-snip formulae were updated)
$ brew upgrade
(snip-snip other upgrades)
==> ...
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MacPorts vs. Fink vs. Homebrew
I always used MacPorts to install and maintain my GCC compilers (4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, ...) and gnuplot. Now I've heard about Fink and Homebrew. I think these two utilities are gaining ground in the Mac ...
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Is the “Cellar” folder only used for Homebrew?
So if I am not using Homebrew, I can safely remove it?
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Disabling /usr/bin/svn to use brew installed svn
I use Lion, and the svn /usr/bin/svn is 1.6 version. As I need to use subversion 1.7, I installed svn from brew to be installed in /usr/local/bin/svn.
How can I disable the svn* files so that I can ...
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How to install rpm tool on Mac OS X 10.8?
How to install rpm tool on OS X?
Brew doesn't have it yet and the binaries I found so far are too old (not intel 64bit).
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Homebrew install from a file
I want to save my favourite application in a textfile and then install all of them using homebrew later.
How can I do this ?
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brew path didn't cover sbin
I have problem when I used brew to install aircrack-ng. I found out that it cover path
/usr/local/Cellar/aircrack-ng/1.1/bin
but it couldn't find commands after I tried tab-completion in path
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