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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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How to install matplotlib on OS X?
I want to install matplotlib on OS X. If possible, using homebrew.
I installed Python 2.7.1 using brew install python, I modified my path to use it
I installed pip using brew install pip
I installed ...
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Python Can't Find Platform Dependent Libraries — Mac Homebrew Install
In an effort to purify my environment I have recently eliminated MacPorts and all traces therein from my Mac OS 10.6.6 box, replacing it with the hip new Homebrew (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew).
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Can pkgsrc, Homebrew, Fink, and MacPorts peacefully coexist?
I heard that some people like to use both Fink and Macports since some packages exist in one and not the other.
Recently I've had trouble building and running packages like GRASS and Digikam w/ ...
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Is it safe to install both Homebrew and Macports on the same machine?
I have MacPorts installed on my iMac with a fair number of ports installed.
I'm interested in trying out Homebrew, though, as I've heard many good things about it, and because I've noticed that it ...
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How to install LIBSVM for Python 2.65 on Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard?
I would prefer to install libsvm without resorting to the use of a package manager other than homebrew. Any ideas?
Thank you,
Michaux
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Homebrew vs Fink vs Macports? [closed]
I am using Fink to install Unix apps on my mac, I just came across Homebrew and saw some good reviews about Homebrew.
So, my question is:
What package manager do you guys use for Mac?
I use Fink ...
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Mac Homebrew and Wireshark
I've installed Wireshark(.org) using Homebrew.
brew install wireshark
at the end the script says
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7 --disable-dependency-tracking ...
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Recommendation for Genesis emulator that can autoload a state
I'm looking for Genesis Emulator(windows would be nice but *ix would be fine) that can autoload a particular (homebrew) ROM and state on startup, any ideas?
Edit:
The homebrew application is a ...
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Macports, Fink, Hombrew: Background Processes?
If I install a package manager such as Macports, Fink or Homebrew, how does it affect the startup and running of my system?
It seems like the answer should be "Not at all when you're not using them" ...
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How to install ported Linux software on a Mac? (MacPorts, Fink, anything better?)
On my Mac OS X machine, how would you recommend I install various software that's been ported from Linux? I don't install such software very frequently, but I've been using MacPorts and it always ...
