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I'm using OS X Lion (10.7.2).

I installed Homebrew on my Mac, and I executed the command below.

$ brew install git

and then:

$ brew update
error: Could not resolve host: github.com; nodename nor servname provided, or not known while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git/info/refs   
fatal: HTTP request failed
Error: Failed while executing git pull  origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master

What happened there?

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this question belongs to Super User. check your network and that you can reach github.com with your browser – CharlesB Nov 16 '11 at 17:43
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what does the command ping github.com return? – Stuart Carnie Nov 16 '11 at 17:44
Mac OS X already has git - just install the developer tools (Xcode) if you haven't already. – Paul R Nov 16 '11 at 17:55
@PaulR Maybe they want a more recent version? – slhck Nov 16 '11 at 20:26
@slhck: could be - the question isn't very clear as to motivation – Paul R Nov 17 '11 at 8:00
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1) If you use CLI package managers such as brew, port, fink, … some installations require root privileges. In these cases run your installation command with sudo:

sudo brew install git

2) Check wether you can github.com via a web browser.

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Actually, you're not supposed to use sudo with Homebrew. Installation instructions say so, as does the FAQ. – Miikka Nov 16 '11 at 19:25
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It's wrong to say that installation in Homebrew is "properly" done with elevated privileges. Please fix your answer. – slhck Nov 16 '11 at 20:25
Thanks for correcting me. I don't know brew in particular, just CLI package managers in general, and from my experience I can say that some installations require root privileges, for this cases executing via sudo can help. – porg Nov 25 '11 at 17:35
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