`homebrew` is a package manager for Mac OS X, in the spirit of Linux's `apt` or `yum`.
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How to install htop on osx using brew?
I am trying install htop using brew:
➜ ~ brew install htop
Error: You must `brew link autoconf' before htop-osx can be installed
than I am doing
brew link autoconf
Linking ...
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How to exit VIM and get back to 'normal' terminal?
I did find this answer here:
Vim Stuck In Insert Mode
However none of the commands listed worked for me. Exit, cntrl + [, cntrl + q
I'm a totally terminal newb, trying to learn how to setup git ...
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Why did NTFS-3G via Homebrew stop working?
I followed the directions here:
NTFS-3G via Homebrew installation
If you have [Homebrew][5], installing NTFS support is as easy as
running the following in a terminal:
brew install ntfs-3g
...
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Symlink to the latest version formula directory in Homebrew
I'm kinda just starting with OS X and Homebrew, yet I find it very useful. However I have one problem: is there a way to make Homebrew automatically create a symlink to the directory of the latest ...
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Hosting IRC server on Mac
Hi fellow stackers: this is my first post here and I'm sure this is just the beginning :)
Today I'm writing to find out how to setup an IRC server on my Mac Mini Server!
Having extremely limited ...
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How do I get Homebrew to recognize my Git install?
I've installed Homebrew and fixed all of the errors that brew doctor reports, except this one:
martinjames$ brew doctor
Warning: An outdated version of Git was detected in your PATH.
Git 1.7.10 or ...
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How to link autoconf in mountain lion?
I'm trying to install autoconf view homebrew on mountain lion, I did this $ brew install autoconf and I got
Warning: Could not link autoconf. Unlinking...
Error: The brew link step did not complete ...
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OSX Mountain Lion - .profile doesn't do anything? [duplicate]
Recently tried the package manager Homebrew to grab things like PyQt4. It also recommended grabbing Python; no problem, done.
So a simple python at the Terminal window didn't open the recently ...
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Possible Homebrew and Rubie issues after the installation of RVM on Mountain Lion
I've installed RVM via the line offered on the rvm.io homepage:
curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled
In order of the installation process RVM automatically ...
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Poblems after using migration assistant
I migrated from a Xenon Mac Pro to a late 2012 Mac mini, using the migration assistant. Now the Mac mini won't recognize PHP. I can't even open my user folder, through terminal neither.
I was running ...
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How can I install PHPmyadmin on Mac Lion using Homebrew
How can I install PHPmyadmin using homebrew, if that possible. I'm using Mac 10.7.
I installed Homebrew, and it's working perfectly. I use it to download php 5.4 and mysql. Both are working ...
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Why build of package without brew does not work?
I am trying to build wireshark same way brew is doing it:
13:48 marko@marko-mpbr:/tmp $ brew fetch wireshark
==> Downloading http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/wireshark-1.8.6.tar.bz2
Already ...
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Adding a specific binary (zsh) to the $PATH?
I have installed a more recent version of zsh using homebrew, located at /usr/local/bin/zsh.
which zsh returns /bin/zsh.
How can I make /usr/local/bin/zsh the default, without adding the entire ...
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Upgrading PostgreSQL via Homebrew
I'm attempting to update PostgreSQL from my system's version (9.1.5) to the latest release (9.2.3). I've followed the directions on this railscast and am encountering issues.
After installing psql ...
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Error when installing CouchDB on OS X Mountain Lion
I'm trying to install CouchDB on Mountain Lion.
I've followed the guide at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_OSX
I get to the point where I have to do brew install couchdb, but when I do ...
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Installing MySQL Server on a Mac with Homebrew
As a total newbie I am trying to get through this tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/python-tutorials/python-from-scratch-creating-a-dynamic-website/
I'm at the point where I've used brew ...
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Using Brew in Fish
I'm using the Fish shell in OSX but my brew installation is broken and I'm struggling to get it working again. Below is the error I get when I try to use brew. Any ideas? If I switch shells (back to ...
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Installed Git via homebrew on OSX , man file problems, other potential problems?
I installed Git via homebrew, on OSX 10.8, with an already existing version of Git. The new version wouldn't show up, so I renamed the old git files (git, gitk etc...)in /usr/bin , to *-old. Now the ...
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Installing Homebrew packages without linking
I'd like to install several versions of Ruby (or really any Homebrew package) without linking any of them. Basically, I'd like to treat any formula as keg-only.
I can't seem to find a way to do this, ...
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Homebrew: Terminal Emoticons How?
I use homebrew for package management on my mac. Today after updating homebrew I saw something I've never seen before;
There was a tiny beer emoticon in the terminal. How is this being done!? What ...
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Should I be concerned about Homebrew changing permissions on system directories? [closed]
I see there are a few package managers for the Mac from this question.
Apple / Mac OS X - Is there a Package Manager like Linux
It looks like Homebrew is pretty good but I see it wants to change ...
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Homebrew postgres won't start after uninstall, reinstall and reboot
I uninstalled and reinstalled postgresql via homebrew. It worked fine until I restarted my computer. Now I'm trying to run my tests and they're blowing up. I'm looking at the current processes and I ...
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“FATAL: lock file ”postmaster.pid“ already exists”
I just reinstalled postgres via brew install postgres
I ran initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 but got this:
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "atal421".
This ...
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Completely remove Postgresql which was installed with Homebrew
A while ago I did brew update, brew upgrade and now things are working kind of funny. When I run cucumber I'm told that
FATAL: database "project_test" does not exist
(PG::Error)
I keep chasing ...
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Despotify segfaults when playing song
On my mac I installed despotify using brew install -HEAD despotify when playing a song I get
Ouch, I segfaulted. How embarrassing. :-(
Abort trap: 6
I have these brew packages installed, I couldn't ...
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Homebrew install problems: Permission denied - /Library/Caches/Homebrew/Formula/libksba.brewing
I've been having problems installing Homebrew since changing my home username on my Mac OSX 10.6.8 computer. After removing all files from the previous Homebrew installation since that didn't work, I ...
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How do you install libtorrent-rasterbar Python bindings with a brewed Python?
The standard approach does not work:
brew install libtorrent-rasterbar
Will install the boost requirement (linked against the system Python), and libtorrent-rasterbar will install without any ...
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How to install mimms on Mac using homebrew
How to install mimms on Mac using homebrew.
Earlier, I installed it using MacPorts but they are ugly and clutter the system a lot.
Therefore, on another machine I installed HomeBrew instead, which ...
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How can I install GNU Parallel alongside Moreutils?
Homebrew has a formula for moreutils and GNU parallel.
GNU Parallel conflicts with Moreutils since it also has a binary called parallel, which is just less useful. However I'd still like to install ...
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Mac: create group for use with mobile & local accounts
I need to create a group that will contain the local admin of a machine and one or more Network (Mobile account) users (from a Mountain Lion Server).
I'm wondering where to create the group brewers ...
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How can Homebrew print a beer mug in Terminal?
Homebrew has a neat trick of printing out little icons next to its output. Like this:
If I copy paste the icon it on its own and hit enter I get the result:
-bash: $'?\237\215?': command not found
...
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How do I change or edit Vim Homebrew recipe?
I use a Vim plugin that requires +clientserver, and the default brew Vim recipe does not include the appropriate flags, so I'm trying to add it to the ./configure step.
I tried building Vim from ...
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Do I need to restore directory permissions to their state prior to a reverted homebrew installation?
I'm trying to back out of a homebrew installation on OS 10.8.2 and am not sure I understand what I need to do to (or whether I need to bother to) restore permissions to what they were before the ...
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Vim: Step by step guide on upgrading/updating vim on Mac OS X Mountain Lion with Homebrew
What is a good step-by-step guide on installing the latest version of Vim on a
Mac Mini with Mountain Lion?
I would prefer to use Homebrew but it's not necessary. And, I would like for it
to be as ...
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How to trigger a script when unmounting a hard drive or restarting?
I've recently installed NTFS-3G through Homebrew in order to access NTFS drives from OSX. There's a slight problem with it: after unmounting the drive, if you take a look at /Volumes/, you can still ...
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How to fix Homebrew error “/usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin”
I am sure this is not a new question, and have ben answered on this website before. I have tried the solutions prescribed but unfortunately the error is still persisting. Hence, approaching the ...
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Attempting to install mysql
After installing mysql using homebrew there was an error with linking it. I tried manually to link it but I got this error:
brew link mysql
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.28... Warning: Could ...
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Homebrew complains about a non-Homebrew “pkg-config” in my PATH
I've just installed Homebrew onto my machine, after which I ran brew doctor which threw up two warnings.
I didn't appear to have the command line tools for Xcode installed, which I have now. The ...
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Installing Python with homebrew on Mountain Lion
I was trying to follow this tutorial and I got stuck. After issuing the command
brew install python --framework --universal
I get
==> /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.3/bin/python -s setup.py ...
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How do you set the PATH in your .profile file? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are PATH and other environment variables, and how can I set or use them?
I'm currently trying out Homebrew and it has told me to list it's folder before the default ...
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Error installing git [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can’t install Git
I am getting the following error when I install git and then run git -version
Davids-iMac:~ davidcavanagh$ git -version
/usr/bin/git: line 1: syntax ...
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Error when starting MySQL
I installed MySQL with homebrew. When I run mysql.server start I get the following error:
ERROR!The server quit without updating PID file (/usr/local/var/mysql...
local.pid
I have searched this ...
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How do I restart redis that I installed with brew?
I used brew to install redis (a key/value store database server) for my node.js app.
brew install redis
However, it seems to disappear and is very volatile. Because I'm using redis as my session ...
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Homebrew installation of git won't take precedence over system version (in /usr/bin/)
OS X (or Xcode) comes bundled with git 1.7.something, but after brew install git (1.8.0), which git keeps returning the old /usr/bin/git.
This is what I get when I echo $PATH right now:
...
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Why does Homebrew seem to require a /Developer folder with the Snow Leopard SDK?
I've had Xcode for a while (since Snow Leopard), and I installed Homebrew relatively recently (I currently have version 0.9.3). After an update to Xcode that recommended running an ...
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Accidentally installed two versions of git
I originally had git installed via Homebrew, but on this machine I forgot to setup the bash completion. So when I attempted to download the git source I accidentally installed a second version of git ...
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Octave Install Error on Mac OSX 10.7.5 (using homebrew)
I am trying to install octave on my mac air
I have updated my homebrew, as is my XCode and its command line tools.
Here is the error I am getting:
==> Using Homebrew-provided fortran compiler.
...
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Where are the build settings in Homebrew?
I'm looking for a a settings file in Homebrew for OS X that controls the build settings, similar to make.conf in Gentoo.
I want to tweak the make -j parameter to use more cores of my machine. The ...
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curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
I know some people have asked this question before but I don't understand some of the answers. I'm a Mac user trying to instal Homebrew but I keep getting this error message:
curl: (7) couldn't ...
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Macports and Homebrew : find conflicting packages
Is there possibility to find out packages installed by both systems, to not have in classpath/$PATH linked two possible conflicting versions ?
Like now I've had Homebrew installed previously, and I ...
