I'm trying to install Homebrew on OS X 10.8.4, and get the following:
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
Press ENTER to continue or any other key to abort
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
error: Could not resolve host: (nil); nodename nor servname provided, or not known while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed
Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n
What is causing this problem? How do I work around it?
Update (with answers to the questions in sameetandpotatoes's comment):
$ curl -Lsf http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
bin/: Can't update time for bin
share/: Can't update time for share
share/man/: Can't update time for share/man
share/man/man1/: Can't update time for share/man/man1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [universal-darwin12.0]
$ gcc --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
I haven't installed Xcode. But I did install "Command Line Tools (OS X Mountain Lion) for Xcode - April 2013" from https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action.
Update #2:
$ git --version
git version 1.7.12.4 (Apple Git-37)
$ which git
/usr/bin/git
So it appears I don't have the same problem as in this answer (referred to in sameetandpotatoes's second comment below).
Update #3:
I discovered the above install must have (at least partially) installed brew, as it was in my /usr/local/bin/. Running brew
brought up the help. But I got the following:
$ brew update
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/bin/homebrew/.git/
error: Could not resolve host: (nil); nodename nor servname provided, or not known while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed
Error: Failure while executing: git fetch origin
I then tried re-installing using the instructions in this answer:
$ pwd
/usr/local/bin
$ mkdir homebrew
$ curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 128 100 128 0 0 191 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 352
100 938k 100 938k 0 0 256k 0 0:00:03 0:00:03 --:--:-- 334k
$ rm brew
$ ln -s homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin/brew
But I get almost the exact same error when I try brew update
:
$ brew update
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/bin/homebrew/.git/
error: Could not resolve host: (nil); nodename nor servname provided, or not known while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed
Error: Failure while executing: git fetch origin
Could this be a problem with my installation or configuration of git? (I use it without a problem with other remote repositories.) Or could it be a (temporary?) problem with github.com?
Update #4: (in response to IOXenus's answer)
I didn't want to keep Homebrew installed anywhere other than the standard /usr/local/, so I deleted all traces of Homebrew (including /usr/local/.git/).
Then I ran the following:
$ git init -q
$ git remote set-url origin git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
fatal: No such remote 'origin'
$ git remote add origin git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
$ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n
remote: Counting objects: 124335, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (61076/61076), done.
remote: Total 124335 (delta 87425), reused 96557 (delta 62265)
Receiving objects: 100% (124335/124335), 19.56 MiB | 698 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87425/87425), done.
From git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
$ git reset --hard origin/master
HEAD is now at 2a3fc63 tractorgen 0.31.7
And I was able to successfully run brew doctor
and brew update
.
curl -Lsf http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
output the same error? What version of ruby do you have? What version of Xcode do you have and do you have Command Line Tools from Xcode installed? Can you verify that you have gcc installed withgcc --version
?git
could be outdated.