Homebrew is a package manager for Mac OS X, in the spirit of Linux's apt or yum. It: Maintains a list of available packages which can be installed, upgraded, and managed. Installs packages from source, and thus requires Xcode be installed on the machine. Automatically resolves dependencies if ...
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brew claims it's outdated, except when i try to update
When I run brew doctor I'm told that my brew installation is outdated. Specifically:
~$ brew doctor
Error: Your Homebrew is outdated
You haven't updated for at least 24 hours, this is a long time in ...
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Is it safe to run multiple brew install commands at the same time?
Is it safe to run multiple brew install commands at the same time?
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'brew doctor' command not recognizing path changes
When I run brew doctor, I get /user/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin So I changed my /etc/paths and my ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as this post said to do. When I run brew doctor again, I still get ...
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brew doctor giving error on a directory that has been removed
I just installed homebrew and as suggested, I ran the brew doctor command. I am linux newbie and do not know how to fix most of these things. But I would like to ask especially about the following ...
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bash says “homebrew: command not found”
I am new to OS X and was following a video and typed
export PATH="$HOME/opt/git/bin:$PATH"
I believe this messed up my path and I am not able to install MySQL now.
When I tried to install ...
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Running Postgresql on OSX
I'm trying to install Postgresql on OSX Lion. I'm using Homebrew, so my installation consisted of doing
brew install postgresql
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
Now when I try to start ...
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Can't compile tmux with iTerm support
I'm trying to compile the tmux that has iTerm2 support.
This is the error I get:
configure.ac:105: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SEARCH_LIBS
If this token and others are legitimate, ...
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COMP_LINE not set despite bash completion being installed
I'm using homebrew's bash completion package on OSX, which is installed in /usr/local/etc/bash_completion. It's working fine, but there are many extensions for it which rely on various environment ...
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trying to install ruby 1.9.3 - an “append” error is being thrown
I'm trying to install ruby for my new macbook.
I've installed the rvm.
Now I'm trying to install ruby 1.9.3 but it won't let me.
I typed in "ruby requirements" and it says I need libksba.
I try ...
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Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: Mac OSX when installing ImageMagick
I am trying to install imagemagick and on my snow leopard MacOSX with homebrew.
when i run:
sudo brew install imagemagick
it breaks at this point with the following error log.
ld: warning: ...
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Macports to Homebrew conflicts?
I am currently using MacPorts on Lion but thinking of switching to Homebrew.
There is a suggestion that installing to /usr/local causes
problems and ~/.homebrew would be an alternative. Can I ...
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Installing macports while i'm using homebrew [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Forcing Homebrew and Macports to coexist?
there are some of the formulas missing with homebrew project and more with macport , anyways I prefer the clean way of ...
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brew link jpeg issues
I am trying to install opencv on Mac OSX Lion.
brew install opencv
I get the following error (and a few other similar ones)
Error: The linking step did not complete successfully
The formula built, ...
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Homebrew error with MacVim on OSX Lion
I am trying to install Macvim with Homebrew on an OSX machine running Lion.
After installing iconv at /opt/local/bin/iconv I get the following error in the log:
Error: Can't run ...
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Homebrew won't link git
When I installed git or upgrade git via brew I couldn't link it with brew link git. If I try sudo brew link git I get:
cowardly refusing to sudo brew link
It says that I have to check the ...
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can I remove imagemagick by deleting directories?
I posted this to StackOverflow, but probably belongs here.
I'm on OSX Lion, trying to get back to basics so I can run RMagick in Rails 3.0, using rvm.
When I tried to add the RMagick gem to Rails ...
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Can't get ffmpeg to use frei0r on OSX (through homebrew)
I am trying to get ffmpeg to use frei0r plugin and although I was able to get frei0r show up in filters list, I get the error:
[frei0r @ 0x10331c1c0] Could not find module 'glow'
Error initializing ...
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How do I fix “Library not loaded: libssl.1.0.0.dylib” with PostgreSQL?
After deleting Macports, I've had some strange behaviour. When I try to run PostgreSQL via CLI, I get:
pawel:~ pawel$ psql
dyld: Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib
Referenced ...
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Homebrew is “cowardly refusing” to install OpenCV
I am trying to install OpenCV with Homebrew.
After typing
sudo brew install opencv
I get this error message
Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install
How can I solve this?
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1answer
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Homebrew doesn't find XCode 4.3
When I try to install something with homebrew I get an error message that it does not find XCode. But I just installed XCode 4.3 and also did a reboot.
admins-MacBook-Pro-2:~ ernst$ brew install ...
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Where can I find a list of all formulas available for homebrew?
Is there a way to get a list of all formulas (packages) I can install using homebrew for Mac OS X?
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The suggested way to handle pip(easy_install) with homebrew?
I know there are brew-gem and brew-pip but it is still really easy to get confused. Let's say my Mac OS X is 10.7.2.
There are at least, as far as I know, 3 locations for Python modules (assume ...
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How to install R with homebrew with Java support?
I have been trying to install the R language with Homebrew but when I install Java packages like iplots I get the following error:
* installing *source* package ‘iplots’ ...
** R
** inst
** preparing ...
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Forcing Homebrew and Macports to coexist?
I have a MacOSX system that I've been using for a number of years, and during this time, I have installed quite a few packages via Macports.
I now want to try Homebrew, but it's clear from what I've ...
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2answers
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How do I alias a Homebrew installed Ruby 1.9 gem binary in /usr/local/bin?
Homebrew's Ruby 1.9 ships with rubygems. Doing gem install ... installs files and binaries into some long-winded path. For example, bundler is installed at:
...
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2answers
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How to install Meld with Homebrew on Mac OSX?
To install meld on Mac OSX I try to run:
brew install meld
but I got the following error:
Error: No available formula for meld
What is the right way to install meld?
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“Could not resolve host: github.com” error while updating Homebrew after installing git
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 ...
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1answer
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Installing Ruby with Homebrew
I'm trying to install Ruby 1.9 using Homebrew. I'm using Mac OS X Lion, so Ruby 1.8.7 is installed by default.
I've got Homebrew installed at /usr/local/bin/brew (well that's what it says if I run ...
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Homebrew keeps saying XCode is not installed
I'm trying to installed Ruby using Homebrew, the OSX package manager.
When I run 'brew install ruby' I keep getting the message 'Warning: XCode is not installed!'. XCode is installed, it's lying.
...
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Bash: Switching from user to root causes issues with prompt
I am on a Mac, running Snow Leopard (if it matters). I am customizing my bash prompt to display things that get pulled from user specific places. For example, I am using Ruby Version Manager to manage ...
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Using PostgreSQL on Mac OS X Lion
I just got a new Mac with Lion installed on it. I then installed Xcode (4.1 through the App Store). Next, I installed Homebrew and I was about to do brew install postgresql like I had done on Snow ...
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Homebrew build with different arch?
I tried to install mysql-connector-c recipe via homebrew, and it builds just fine, but produces x86_64 library:
$file ~/brew/lib/libmysql.dylib
.../brew/lib/libmysql.dylib: Mach-O 64-bit ...
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How do you re-install a package with Homebrew (Mac)?
Struggling to find good Homebrew documentation (or tutorial)...
In the mean time I need to reinstall ImageMagick that was installed with Homebrew (brew install imagemagick) and not sure if I should ...
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How should I set the PATH variable on my Mac so the Hombrew-installed tools are found?
Trying to set up Homebrew on a new Mac (on previous Macs I would install packages from source).
The first package I tried to install was Git:
$ brew install git
Installation went OK, but which ...
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Install dpkg without Fink or MacPorts on a mac
I don't want to use either of Fink or MacPorts, because I use Homebrew.
I need to use dkpg, but it isn't included in Homebrew, and it fails when trying to compile it from source with:
$ make
make ...
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OSX: Installing Custom PHP Binaries
I've been doing alot of research and trying to figure out why I have this "older" version of PHP on my Mac (Snow Leopard). I tried MAMP, and it's cool if you just want a *AMP stack and not much ...
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How to run a command inside a script without specifying the exact location?
So I have a PHP script that is using wget to download some images. It looks something like this:
exec('wget -O saveImage.png http://location.of.image');
When I run my script on a different machine, ...
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1answer
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Fink remove all packages
I switched to HomeBrew from Fink, and I want to uninstall Fink and all of the packages I installed with it to avoid problems in the future.
I found this perl snippet that should remove all pacages, ...
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1answer
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perl5.14 OS X - what is the best way manage it?
Im an heavy macports user. Have a lot of ports installed with +perl variants. (and much p5-modules too, and zilion others installed by cpan).
Now, I need perl 5.14. (because improved utf8 handling), ...
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853 views
How to install PHP, Pear, PECL, and APC with Homebrew on Mac OS X?
I'm trying to install APC for PHP 5.3 in the easiest way possible. I love Homebrew so I started down that route. I was able to install PHP 5.3.6 with this command:
brew install ...
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1answer
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Homebrew Mac OS X Installation
I have installed homebrew on my Mac, but no matter what brew command I run, I get:
/usr/local/bin/brew:6:in `require': no such file to load -- pathname (LoadError)
from /usr/local/bin/brew:6
I am ...
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1answer
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is there any equivalent/branch of Homebrew for Windows? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Package managers for Windows
Homebrew is a package manager for macOS mimicking Linux ones (think about apt-get as a canonical example). Obviously, it has some trendy ...
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Installing and running couchdb on macosx
I am running OSX Leopard 10.5.8. I installed couchdb using
brew install couchdb
If I run couchdb on the command line (in accordance with the brew info instructions) 3 processes are spawned, but ...
4
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1answer
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MySQL Preference Pane control for MySQL installed via Homebrew
this is a repost of my question at apple.stackexchange.com
I have installed MySQL via homebrew: brew install mysql. I'd like to get the MySQL preference pane hooked up to my installation of MySQL ...
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Enable multiple users to install software using homebrew
I installed homebrew using my other user account (which I use during work), but it is impossible to install software from my newly created personal account:
$ brew install unrar
Error: Cannot write ...
2
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2answers
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On Mac OS X with HomeBrew, is there any advantage to installing Git via .dmg rather than via HomeBrew?
If a Mac OS X user already has HomeBrew installed, is there any advantage to installing Git via the .dmg files for OS X linked from the Git download page rather than via HomeBrew?
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2answers
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how can I uninstall using homebrew?
Can I uninstall something I installed via homebrew using homebrew?
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How to commit a change to a homebrew formula?
I made a change to some homebrew formula which fixes an issue I had. I also opened an issue to get that fix into the repository.
But no one has responded yet. Now I want to update my homebrew ...
3
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2answers
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Can't install Brew formulae correctly (Permission denied in /usr/local/lib)
I am installing a few Homebrew packages on a brand new Mac. However, there are some errors while linking:
ln: ./libsvn_wc-1.dylib: Permission denied
Error: The linking step did not complete ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to have homebrew update node to v0.4.2?
Atm I have homebrew installing node on my mac, when I run brew update node it says
Already up-to-date.
Then when I do node -v I get
v0.2.6
Is there some way to get brew to update to v0.4.2 ...
