Questions tagged [homebrew]
System for installing command-line Unix applications and tools on OS X. Free and open-source.
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Homebrew - How to upgrade a HEAD forumla?
I installed libimobiledevice a few months ago with brew install --HEAD libimobiledevice, and tried to upgrade it today with brew upgrade libimobiledevice (no --HEAD because it's not an option for brew(...
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Best file system for external hard drive, to be used on both Linux and macOS?
What's the best file system that I can use for an external HD which I want to use on both a macOS system, and a linux system? I can transfer files using sneaker-net much faster than through an AFP or ...
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Cannot install anything because of /usr/local/ permission
I'm using OS Catalina atm. I am trying to install Node and Homebrew but I can't seem to install anything because it keeps on saying I don't have permission in /usr/local/
Installing homebrew gives me
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Xcode command line tools install error trying to run homebrew
I am trying to install homebrew but cannot due to an error popping up when I try to install command line tools. The error says that they cannot be downloaded from the install server.
I already checked ...
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Install python3 from Homebrew vs the installer from https://www.python.org/?
Is there any advantage of installing python 3 through homebrew vs through the installer from https://www.python.org/ or vice verse (except that the installer can give me the latest version)?
I try ...
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How to install Python 3.7 via homebrew on OS X
I need to rollback my homebrew-managed python 3.8 to 3.7.
I have tried the approach from Homebrew: Rollback from Python 3.7 to Python 3.6.5.x? - Ask Different. So I unlinked 3.8, but my python.rb URL ...
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Install brew without prompt password
I want to create a script to automate the installation of brew on new workstations without entering password. In my /etc/sudoers I added the path to my file
dsi ALL = (ALL) ALL
dsi ALL = (root) ...
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Homebrew package manager taps fatal error
I was updating and upgrading Homebrew and I saw this error message: does anyone know what shall I do?
==> Pouring imagemagick-7.0.10-31.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/imagemagick/7.0....
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Can't run Homebrew anymore
I've been installing packages using Homebrew until now. I just found that I can't even run homebrew basic commands:
$ brew --version
Traceback (most recent call last):
4: from /usr/local/Homebrew/...
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Unable to install Homebrew in Terminal
I was trying to install Homebrew in Terminal. I have MacOs Catalina 10.15.7. I am the admin of my computer. But i keep getting the following messages.
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Homebrew - I cannot install from source. Command clang requires CLT
I have installed XCode 12 from my MBP. Then I cleaned old Command Line Tools. After that I downloaded CLT 12 from Apple website and installed it fine.
Now The issue is I cannot build anything from ...
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MacBook not starting / booting after change done in sudo user permissions
Exact same thing as mac won't start after "sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*" command
Solution proposed in this by was to reinstall the Os which I have done but unfortunately, ...
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No write permissions on /usr/local/* | Mac OS X 10.15 Catalina
I have problems with write perms in /usr/local/(lib|Cellar|include|etc.) folders
This material says that admin user have write perms in /usr/local, but I have problems with installing through make, ...
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What does “link: false” mean in my Brewfile?
My Brewfile created with brew bundle dump contains one line with link: false:
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brew "git"
brew "python@3.8", link: false
brew "glib"
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I don't see any kind of --...
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How do I update java manual pages with Homebrew?
I am using Homebrew to install AdoptOpenJDK 11. I want to see the documentation via the manual pages.
Symptoms
When I run man java, I see documentation from 2004. At the bottom:
SEE ALSO
javac(...
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How to query a particular field of brew cask/ formula info?
Homebrew version on my Mac:
Homebrew 2.5.0-84-g9e697bd
Take github (Cask for GitHub Desktop) for example, this is the cask file located in /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/Casks/...
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How to find source formula of brew package (github repo)?
How can I find the sources and changes for a given brew package?
I'm having an issue with a package that's installed via brew on a cloud instance whose image I don't control. I'm trying to figure out ...
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Brew cask: I would like to check if the package/formula is already installed through brew or other means
I am trying to install some softwares using brew cask and I would like to check if the package/formula is already installed through brew or other means
I have a script that installs a list of ...
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macOS catalina, Apache Benchmark (ab) not working, dyld library not loaded
I just got this error trying to install ab on my Catalina macOS:
brew install homebrew/apache/ab
Error: homebrew/apache was deprecated. This tap is now empty and all its contents were either ...
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Subversion on macOS Catalina (10.15) producing very strange/incorrect behavior
I've just moved to macOS Catalina 10.15, and installed Subversion via Homebrew. That appeared to go well; svn --version and svn help both work, and I was able to use svn checkout to check out a small ...
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Installing stuff: brew vs. official installer - which one should be used?
I wonder how programs should be installed on Mac? Via Homebrew or an official installer if there is one?
Let's say I want to install Node.js on my Mac.
The official macOS installation guide offers ...
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Is it bad to call sudo on 'sudo brew services start --all'?
I had a bug running redis and I stopped all servies with sudo brew services stop --all and installed redis fresh.
Now I wanted to start all servies again with sudo brew services start --all
but I'm ...
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Vim frozen and unresponsive on startup
I am using zsh on macOS. When I type vim, it opens, but it is completely frozen:
Anything I press on the keyboard does not display or change the window. In order to exit, I have to terminate the ...
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Imagemagick installed via Homebrew, convert missing
I tried installing Imagemagick using 'brew install imagemagick'. The end result I was hoping for was the existence of commands mogrify and convert. It had apparently been a long time since I ran ...
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How to install python3.7 on a mac (mojave using homebrew
I am running MacOS Mojave (10.14.6) and want to install python 3.7.
Currently I have python 3.6 installed:
$ python -V
Python 3.6.9
There seems to be python 3.7 available:
$ brew search python
==> ...
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Intellimouse Optical-side buttons for Catalina
My ~20 year old Intellimouse Optical optical functions in Catalina. I would like to be able to use the side-buttons to "go-back" in Safari. I believe (please tell me if this not correct) ...
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How will Apple's switch to ARM (Apple Silicon) affect compatibility with Linux / Unix tools and APIs? [closed]
At the moment, a huge argument for using Macs in academic and research settings (and possibly quite a few other use cases) is the compatibility with the Linux/Unix ecosystem, through Homebrew, ...
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How to download a binary from brew without installing brew?
I want a software package that exists in the Homebrew package manager, but I don't want to install brew for it.
How can I get a pre-built binary for my macOS?
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/etc/hosts not working on Catalina with dnsmasq
I have several bad guys mapped to 0.0.0.0 in /etc/hosts and this has been working as intended until today. I launched the default brew installation of dnsmasq and now the bad guys are resolving to ...
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Python launcher Icon every time a script runs
I've had a MacBook given to me from work for over a year now and recently I got a new mac and every time I launch a python script the python launcher icon appears in the mac dock.
However, in the old ...
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How can I make a homebrew application the default for opening certain file types?
I just installed mpv with homebrew on MacOS Catalina. Since I spend equal amounts of time using the terminal and Finder, I would like to open all video files with mpv from Finder. Unfortunately, I don'...
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Upgrade to Big Sur Beta 3 Broke Brew Build system
Today I upgraded to Big Sur Beta3 and I cannot install anything with Brew. I get the error:
Error: Your Xcode (11.6) is too outdated.
Please update to Xcode 12.0 (or delete it).
Xcode can be updated ...
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zsh-autosuggestions: How to install zpty module?
I love zsh-autosuggestions and found in the README:
completion: Chooses a suggestion based on what tab-completion would
suggest. (requires zpty module)
With a web search I din't find out what zpty ...
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Installing pip ssl problem
I have following problem: I'm setting up new user on my mac, as previous domain user is currently unavailable. When I try to install pip by
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3
I get ...
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How do I resolve svn: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode
I have subversion and Unity installed via brew.
I have code in Unity to run svn and it returns the error:
svn: The subversion command line tools are no longer provided by Xcode.
But if I run svn in ...
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why python 2.7 doesnt pick pyqt4 installed using homebrew
I needed to fix the application before I migrate it to pyqt5,
so I installed pyqt4 using brew:
brew install cartr/qt4/pyqt
now when I tried launching pyqt4 app I still get this error:
Traceback (most ...
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How can I select “Allow” from System Preferences -> Security Panel to allow the installer to run from TERMINAL
I am trying to install Docker on a macOS computer remotely from my Windows machine using a terminal connection. In order to to this, I run the following command on the Mac:
brew cask install ...
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Brew update on macOS Catalina it fails with: “fatal: could not read Username for 'https://e.coding.net': terminal prompts disabled”
I am using macOS Catalina 10.15.2 and when I run brew update I get this issue:
$ brew update
fatal: could not read Username for 'https://e.coding.net': terminal prompts disabled
Error: Fetching /usr/...
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Installing brew in terminal while logged in as standard user—why is admin owner of files?
Logged in as a standard user. Using the following terminal command to install brew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
It ...
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Installing MongoDB Enterprise on MacOS Catalina Version 10.15.5 (19F101)
I'm completely new to macOS, I used to use GNU/Linux for more than a decade. Now I want to install the MongoDB Enterprise edition. I downloaded it, unpacked it, but when I want to run the mongo ...
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Where does brew get all its binaries from? [duplicate]
Is there some centralized place were people just put their binaries and brew just queries that? Or do people submit their binaries to Brew? If so how do I go about submitting my binaries to brew?
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Failed to import cxutils module into Python
I had been using Crossover for a while on High Sierra (10.13.6) without any problem but recently, I needed it again and tried to install it again but encountered a very annoying error. Looked for a ...
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Failing to connect Python to MySQL — no luck with brew install mysql-connector-c
I think I must have made some mess with brew install/uninstall of MySQL, but I don't know how to get out of this state:
I'm trying to run MySQL stuff on Python 3.7 (High Sierra 10.13). However:
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Cryptographic Integrity and Authentication Validation of Homebrew Installer?
Is there a way to install homebrew on MacOS such that anything downloaded from the Internet is cryptographically validated for integrity and authenticated to the actual publisher?
Unfortunately, the ...
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How to use Wine-devel to install OpenBUGS on Catalina?
My MacBook Air: Catalina 10.15.4 (19E287)
I have already installed Homebrew. However, as Wine still requires 32-bit code to run 32-bit Windows software, while Catalina dropped 32-bit code support, I ...
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“sh: wine: command not found” on Mac, despite wine installed?
Hello, all. I have been using Wineskin Winery to run Windows programs for almost a decade at this point, and though I have already gone through my fair share of issues (using winetricks, checking ...
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libxml2 installation not being seen by LaTeXiT
I just installed LaTeXiT and tried to change the output to MathML. I got this error at first
(it says Warning: the XML::LibXML perl module was not found). After this I ran brew install libxml2 and ...
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Homebrew started blowing up, no idea why
I probably did some unwise things. After a brew update and a brew doctor kept throwing the same error, I tried to uninstall and reinstall it with the shell scripts for those. They mostly worked, but ...
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PHP 7.4 crashing with apparent XCode problem?
I'm wondering if the php that comes with OSX is now "Codesigned" and thus stopping the "brew" version from working? I have the latest XCode command line installed, and also XCode GUI.
Is this a ...
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Find out which Homebrew formula gave a shared library file
I installed Homebrew cask package sequel-pro, but when I try to use it, it complains in a dialog about a failing dlopen() naming the shared library (/usr/local/lib/plugin/caching_sha2_password.so).
I ...
