Questions tagged [homebrew]
System for installing command-line Unix applications and tools on OS X. Free and open-source.
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How can I mount a remote SSH folder on Mac without sshfs?
In the past I had used sshfs sshfs user@server:/remote_folder ~/local_mount and osxfuse (now macfuse).
However, sshfs seems to be deprecated and I can't find an alternative.
I tried using smbfs but ...
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pure-ftpd error: 530 Login authentication failed
pure-ftpd: stable 1.0.51
MacOS Catalina 10.15.7
Background: I need to setup an FTP server in order to install OpenWRT on an old Dlink DIR300 router. I tried with a few different ftp servers and all ...
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MacOS Warning on Terminal Startup: "Warning: No available formula with the name "pure#". Did you mean pure?"
I recently tried to install a zsh prompt called pure, where I followed the instructions listed on its Github page
https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
I set my ZSH_THEME = "", ran brew ...
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Directories owned by user 501 after migrating between MacBooks and changing users
I set up a new Macbook using the migration assistant. As I wanted to keep the name of my user directory on the old machine, and this was attached to an account I migrated as part of the process, I did ...
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Why is mac able to find some bin in PATH but not others?
I recently upgraded Python but encountered some strange behavior: I have both /opt/homebrew/bin and /usr/local/bin in my PATH variable.
python was in both these directories. When I removed the one in /...
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Homebrew installs elm, but elm-repl not available
On MacOS 10.15.7, I installed elm with
brew install elm
which indeed installed the elm binary and placed a symlink to it into /usr/local/bin. However I wound that the bin directory for elm does not ...
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MacOs list package install via curl
Is there a way to find the list of packages that have been installed via curl?
For example I installed the following two packages:
Bun:
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash
Maestro:
curl -Ls &...
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brew install pianobar failed
I'm trying to install pianobar on my Macbook with the brew package installer. These are the errors I get:
Error: pianobar: Failed to download resource "libvorbis"`
Download failed: Homebrew-...
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Mac cannot read mp3 audio cd
I recently purchased a mp3 audio cd thinking I could play it on my Mac. I get this 'unreadable disk' message when I insert the CD into my external DVD drive:" The only thing I've done so far is ...
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What tools come pre-installed on Mac; what is part of the Xcode command line tools; and what should I install myself?
I'm setting up my Macbook, and in the process of installing Homebrew, I installed the Xcode commandline tools. I'm assuming the result of this is the /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools directory, ...
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I'm trying to install ncdu using MacPorts in macOS Catalina, however it depends on zig but zig is no longer compatible, looking for workaround
I have an old MacBook which cannot be upgraded to anything higher than Catalina (at least officially) and I had been using Homebrew but since now it's not supported it tries to compile every package ...
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Is there a way to see changes that have been made to my Apple OS (Monterey)?
Over the years I know I've made a few changes where I've had to turn system protection off to get into the deeper OS to make some changes, but I don't quite remember what I've done. I might have had ...
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Launch New Bash Shell And Run Commands
I am attempting to launch a new shell and run a command in the new shell, and then leave the shell running interactively. I attempted the process over here [ (bash --rcfile <(echo '. ~/.bashrc; ...
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i tried symlinking the existing package into /usr/local/bin but homebrew still keeps trying to download its own version which results in failure [duplicate]
I know from questions like Use specific local gcc and related libraries with Homebrew that this apparently isn't something easy to do, but that particular question seems to have been resolved with &...
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Homebrew using asdf-vm for dependencies [duplicate]
I've recently been forced to re-setup my laptop, and after installing homebrew and asdf, I got to installing other dependencies.
First I installed Python 3.11 and then some dependencies with brew. It'...
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GTK4 + brew + m2
I am having a lot of problems trying to run code made with GTK4 previously made on an intel Mac. I made the code in pure C using GTk4 for a gui. I needed to configure my path back on those days and ...
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7-zip for MacOS man page missing
Starting from this page, I tried to install a program for manipulating 7-zip-files using
brew install sevenzip
Interestingly, this installed an executable named 7zz, but no man-page for it. While ...
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Infinite "bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local:/bin" in Terminal
2 Updates:
I updated bash shell to Zsh with "chsh -s /bin/zsh" which seemed to do something.
I no longer get [Process Completed] or an infinite loop. Just a large block of text when typing /...
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iPhone SE 2016 Activation Lock [duplicate]
My friend's mother recently passed away and she gave me her Mom's old iPhone SE to wipe. I did this. However, neither of us know the Apple ID password and we were not able to turn off Find My on the ...
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Installed Gnu Coreutils, but no grep present [duplicate]
I have installed some time ago the Gnu Coreutils using Homebrew, and choose the installation variant that the tools should be installed with a new name, with g as prefix, since I want to use them ...
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Is the any way to upgrade all the Mac apps, even third-party, all at once
I have been wondering if there is any way to upgrade simply ALL the Mac apps at once, even the third-party apps downloaded outside the Mac App Store.
I know that there is this Homebrew code snippet ...
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Obtaining equivalent of Brewfile as backup without using "brew" [duplicate]
My MacBook is broken but I can boot into recovery mode. I have multiple local users on this machine, each having a local instance of homebrew with their own configured taps, casks, mas applications, ...
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Multipass not working on Mac M2
I installed brew install multipass to run Ubuntu 22 on top of my MacBook Pro M2 as a virtual machine (as VM Virtual Box is not available for Apple silicon chips)
After a while, when invoking any ...
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Install individual homebrew packages in different locations
to organize my applications folder a bit, I want to create subfolders in /Users/username/Applications, e.g. /Users/username/Applications/Tools.
Now programs installed via brew are automatically ...
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Terminal echos out environment variables when opening a new window
When I open up a terminal (Apple Terminal, iTerm2, Hyper), the terminal echos out many environment variables and then shows the command prompt at the end, I'm not sure what has caused this. I ...
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Sudden unexplained change in perl behavior
I've been using zsh for at least a year, and I use perl in Terminal every day.
Today, for the first time ever, launching Terminal got this:
Last login: Thu Jul 13 08:50:35 on console
Attempting to ...
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yt-dlp: How to download best m4a?
How can I download best quality m4a using yt-dlp?
On YouTube-dl I did it with this command:
youtube-dl -f bestaudio[ext=m4a] URL
But on yt-dlp this command gives me error, no matches found: bestaudio[...
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How can I use readline instead of editline in the Python REPL and other programs?
I prefer to use readline instead of editline in the Python REPL and MySQL for example. These programs are compiled with editline support as provided by Apple or Homebrew. How can I make them work with ...
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why the nginx have two path in macOS 13.2
Today I found the nginx have path /opt/homebrew/opt/nginx and /opt/homebrew/Cellar/nginx in the macOS 13.2, which one should I use? why the macOS have two different path?
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Command failed: dyld[23446]: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libidn2/lib/libidn2.0.dylib
When I tried to using this curl_chrome100 command to download html in macOS 13.2 terminal:
./curl_chrome100 https://google.com
shows error:
> ./curl_chrome100 https://google.com
dyld[28254]: ...
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Why does my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH makes dynamic linker see a dylib that`ls` does not show me?
How did adding /usr/lib/ to my DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH cause this dynamic linking problem on my MacOS Ventura M1 MBP?
I had set export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="...:/usr/lib:..." in my .bash_profile.
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High Sierra (10.13.6) npm OSSL PEM routine error
Recently acquired an old MacBook Pro, new to MacOS.
I have downloaded & installed node 16.20.1
https://nodejs.org/en/download/releases
npm install fails.
npm doctor returns:
Check ...
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Ran "install homebrew" but "brew help shellenv" says "command not found: brew"
I'm using a macOS Ventura. It gave me a novel-length of text, which I assume confirmed installation of Homebrew when I typed "install homebrew". Usually, that's what happens on the ...
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why brew showing multiple instances in mac?
am trying to install packages using homebrew but everything gets installed multiple times, then i could see brew have multiple instances, any chance we can avoid that ?
which -a brew
/opt/homebrew/...
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csvkit/in2csv: AttributeError: 'ReadOnlyWorksheet' object has no attribute 'defined_names'
I have installed csvkit with Homebrew, but when running in2csv foo.xlsx > foo.csv, I'm always getting this error message:
AttributeError: 'ReadOnlyWorksheet' object has no attribute 'defined_names'...
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Running noScribe with WINE/Crossover/Gameporting Toolkit
I am trying to run noScribe (for AI supported transcription of audio files) with the new Game porting toolkit (I know, it's not a game, but to my understanding it should still run, since it's based on ...
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most terminal commands are killed
I have this problem since weeks: my ZSH terminal on start up shows an error and even with most commands (especially if they are sudo).
All results are "killed", sometimes with "Killed: ...
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Why can't I uninstall Node using HomeBrew?
I'm on a MacBook running MacOS 12.6.1
I'm trying to uninstall node. But its not working.
How can I fix this?
See the output below:
% node -v
v14.21.3
% which node
/opt/homebrew/opt/node@14/bin/node
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zsh:killed /usr/libexec/java_home -V after running /usr/libexec/java_home -V
I am trying to run /usr/libexec/java_home -v, and I am getting this error :
zsh:killed /usr/libexec/java_home -V
What did i try?
Reinstalling brew.
Changing shell to bash. It throws killed : 9
When ...
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New iTerm2 tab displays ‘brew: command not found’ after updating PHP although brew is installed and included in PATH
I’m at the end of my rope here and hope you guys & gals can help out.
I use the package bash-completion via brew, and, after this morning, I get this message when I open a new iTerm2 tab:
-bash: ...
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Get Homebrew to re-create executable symlinks for an installed package (ghostscript)?
I am trying to re-install/re-link Ghostscript from Homebrew. I previously had it installed from Hombrew and working fine, but recently I installed MacTeX 2023, and it seems that it replaced the ...
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How do I view *.info document files on macOS?
Is there a Homebrew package (or other source) that installs a macOS (Ventura 13.3.1) version of info?
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My Mac doesn't allow installation of any software
Every time I try to install any software on my Mac, it comes up with an error. I have scoured the net and have followed advice which includes checking if there's enough space (which I have), checking ...
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Brew can not find git
I managed to move brew and php from an M1 silicon to an Intel Mac.
The php is broken due to different processors. And I would resolve that by installing a new php version with brew. This isn't about ...
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Attempting to use QEMU/UTM on Mac - installation of Windows requires chntpw
I am attempting to follow the instructions for using UTM on Mac and then to build a Windows VM.
The first issue is that when I try to download the The script that apparently builds the ISO for windows ...
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Does anyone else have lots of duplicate man pages?
For example, for the read man page, I have a single one for read(2), two of the same for read(1) and two of the same for read(n). This has led to some performance and timing issues. I believe it has ...
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My M1 macbook thinks its build is x86 Intel, how can I fix this to show arm64?
In my M1 macbook, when I use terminal to install anything, I am getting lots of errors because the binaries are being installed for x86 architecture when I need arm64. For example, when I write the ...
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Problem with ARM package selection when installing homebrew git on an Intel MacBook Air
I was trying to install homebrew git but I got this
Error: Cannot install on Intel processor in ARM default prefix (/opt/homebrew)!
I have an Intel processor MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015) running ...
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How can I fix a zshrc:export:1: not valid in this context error when I'm installing homebrew?
I am getting this error when I start up Terminal on my Mac: .zshrc:export:1: not valid in this context
I got this error when installing Homebrew. Can anyone help with this?
I am a beginner for this; ...
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homebrew stopped working after MacOS update
I updated my MacBook Pro to Monterey (version 12.6.4).
Now when I enter any brew command on the command line, I get an exception:
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/version.rb:366:in `initialize': ...
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