System for installing command-line Unix applications and tools on Mac OS X. Free and open-source.
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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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Problem trying to install iftop via Homebrew
I got Homebrew installed, but:
>brew install iftop
==> Downloading http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/download/iftop-0.17.tar.gz
File already downloaded in /Volumes/0/z/Library/Caches/Homebrew
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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 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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OS X Lion Server multiple postgresql installs
I am using Homebrew to install PostgreSQL on my Mac mini server (Lion). However, I am unable to run the version I have installed, the only version I see running is the version installed with OS X:
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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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Is it safe to upgrade Bash via Homebrew?
I'm new to OS X. I'm running OS X Lion on a MacBook Pro. Is it safe to upgrade the bash shell using Homebrew:
$ brew install bash
If safe, how do I make it the default instance of the shell I run ...
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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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Can homebrew and macports work together to let Firefox-X11 be installed?
I want to install firefox-x11 but theres no repo in homebrew, only macports seems to have one, hence I'm at a loss how to get firefox-X11 on a system that relies on homebrew for OSS.
The way I'd ...
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Should I be worried about 98°C CPU temperature on MacbookAir?
I'm a developer and often times I need to compile some packages or maybe even run some codes for couple of hours.
Recently I have noticed that whenever I use Homebrew to install something, it ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Amending PATH so that /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin
I'm trying to install brew but get the following warning:
Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin
This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those
provided by Homebrew. ...
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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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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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What are pros and cons for MacPorts, Fink and Homebrew?
I'm just migrating from Ubuntu Linux to Mac, and everything is new and I'm re-learning a lot of stuff.
On Linux I had the excellent apt-get to manage software packages. I googled for an alternative ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How do I install GCC via Homebrew?
I am using Homebrew exclusively (i.e. I don’t, and won’t, use MacPorts or Fink). I also want to keep manual installations to a bare minimum.1
… But how can I install GCC?
First of all, I’ve of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to get gnome-terminal on Lion?
Is there a port of gnome-terminal, or a way to compile it, or some other program that is typographically comparable, under Lion?
There is a typographic difference, and I can't duplicate it in ...
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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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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 can I install Octave with curl support via homebrew?
I've installed octave with homebrew (via brew install octave), and it seems to work fine, including gnuplot support. However, it looks like it's missing curl support. I'm getting the message "error: ...
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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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“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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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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What is the best Homebrew version for an iBook running Tiger?
I have an old iBook running Mac OS Tiger, and I want to install the Homebrew package manager on it. Which branch should I choose ?
The Tiger one?
The PPC one?
Another one?
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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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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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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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Homebrew permission issues
I basically installed Homebrew as described at https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/installation.
However, my user account ist not an Administrator account, therefore I substituted my user identity ...
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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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How do I install Homebrew on Tiger?
According to this previous question, I want to install Homebrew Tiger branch on my iBook running ... well, Tiger.
Unfortunatly, when running the Ruby one-liner,
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL ...
