All of my other apps install to /Applications (which is what I want), but the itch.app installs to ~/Applications instead. I tried brew reinstall --cask --appdir /Applications itch, but that just reinstalled it to ~/Applications. Any advice? Thanks.
You can view the cask script of itch by running:
brew cask edit itch
You will see:
cask "itch" do
version "1.18.0"
sha256 "cfc76d52483d3e649026f29ddb6f136207964ea54eee996ee62a7a4e17326e05"
url "https://broth.itch.ovh/itch-setup/darwin-amd64/#{version}/archive/default",
verified: "broth.itch.ovh/"
appcast "https://github.com/itchio/itch-setup/releases.atom"
name "itch.io"
homepage "https://itch.io/app"
installer script: "itch-setup"
uninstall delete: [
"~/Applications/itch.app",
"~/Library/Application Support/itch-setup/",
],
quit: "io.itch.mac"
zap trash: [
"~/Library/Application Support/itch/",
"~/Library/Preferences/io.itch.mac.helper.plist",
"~/Library/Preferences/io.itch.mac.plist",
]
end
The folder ~/Application is defined only in the uninstall section. It means that it's itch itself that define ~/Application as its installation directory. You can maybe hack itch to change that but you cannot change this at the Homebrew level.
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When I installed 7zip via home brew (Formula sevenzip), i noticed that i cannot run it via sevenzip and even brew info sevenzip did not tell me the name of the binary.
Only after looking in the script file on Github I noticed a command 7zz but there must be an easier way to find out the binaries or commands associated with a homebrew package.
The simplest I know is:
brew ls PACKAGE
and you can normally see it pretty quickly. Personally, I use p7zip as PACKAGE.
Alternatively, as brew --prefix tells you where binaries are installed (via symlinks), you can find the newest installed binary with:
ls -lrt $(brew --prefix)/bin
and it's the last one listed.
I am trying to install homebrew on m1 MacBook but I am getting this error message every time when I try to run this command.
Please anyone help me to fix this.
How to install HomeBrew on new MacBook: macOS Big Sur
install HomeBrew from terminal Homebrew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
After installation, we need to change path
Warning: /opt/homebrew/bin is not in your PATH.
==> Installation successful!
To change path, follow Next steps: - Add Homebrew to your PATH in /Users/username/.zprofile As mentioned in terminal:
echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/username/.zprofile
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
All done ready to use brew, check HomeBrew version:
brew --version
Output
Homebrew 3.1.5
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 5741ae3fec; last commit 2021-05-08)
Ok, I managed to figure this out after being pointed in the right direction. Full details can be found here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/issues/100633
In summary, my ISPs (Virgin Media) Web Safe Settings were on, and this resulted in some issue with connecting to github (ping GitHub.com via terminal and search the IP to see where its pointing to), so had to turn off the web settings, rebooted my router just in case and used a new terminal window to ping github.com again and noticed a change in the IP address. Tried reinstalling Homebrew again and it worked!!
in my case, i fix the problem open the terminal as rosseta.
finder - application - utility - terminal - right mouse button - 'bring the imformation (i'm not sure, i'm korean user)' - check the 'open with the rosseta' - and try install homebrew again ! !
(copy-paste Homebrew with the terminal)
and...
==> Installation successful!
But, you will get a warning " /opt/homebrew/bin is not in your PATH". Then, follow the Next steps guide showed in terminal to finish add Homebrew to your PATH.
To end, type "brew -v" to check installed brew version.
After installing nvm with brew, and running nvm, it says nvm: command not found
How can I get the command to execute?
There are two steps to installing nvm with brew.
First use brew to install the application:
brew install nvm
Then take a look at the brew info "caveats" section, to see what else you have to do:
brew info nvm
You might see something like (this can change!):
You should create NVM's working directory if it doesn't exist:
mkdir ~/.nvm
Add the following to ~/.bash_profile or your desired shell
configuration file:
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
. "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"
If you do not have a ~/.bash_profile file, then you can simply create one.
Make sure to restart your terminal before trying to run the nvm command again.
I followed #user3207874's answer, but it still wasn't working for me. I had to run this command after those steps:
source $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh
From the docs:
Your system may not have a [.bash_profile file] where the command is
set up. Simply create one with touch ~/.bash_profile and run the
install script again
you might need to restart your terminal instance. Try opening a new
tab/window in your terminal and retry.
Restarting worked for me...Why can't all bugs be so easy?!!
Just adding some explanation for Aaditya's answer to explain why it works. I can't replay because I don't have enough reputation.
Basically there are 2 important steps to follow
Export NVM_DIR location. You need to create this folder if it doesn't exist first.
export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
Second you need to source nvm's script. It is usually like this
. "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh"
If the path on the second step does work it may be because the path is different in your device. One easy way to find its path is with the command
brew --prefix nvm
The output will be the path for the nvm installation directory in which the nvm.sh file resides. Setting the command inside $() will create a subshell to get that path. We can use it to source the nvm.sh script wherever it is located like this:
. $(brew --prefix nvm)/nvm.sh
Using that command is a replacement for . "/usr/local/opt/nvm/nvm.sh" in your .bash_profile.
please run this command
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
I had the same problem after running npm install
The following solution worked for me:
Run brew doctor to find broken symlinks for NPM
Run brew cleanup to clean them up
Just adding some new info.
The docs for nvm have this note:
Homebrew installation is not supported. If you have issues with homebrew-installed nvm, please brew uninstall it, and install it using the instructions below, before filing an issue.
So for anyone coming here, potentially uninstall via brew and install as per recommendation : https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
Forgive me if this is elsewhere, but I can't find it.
I am trying to install NTFS-3G on OS X 10.11 (El Capitan).
I am following the process at this link
But the step to install NTFS-3G reports:
$ brew install homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g
Warning: homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g-2015.3.14 already installed, it's just not linked
So...
How do I just link the installed item?
Once that's done, how do I complete the install process? Is there anything that the 'brew install...' process would do after linking?
EDIT:
Following bfontaine... I get:
$ brew link homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g/2015.3.14...
Error: Could not symlink share/doc/ntfs-3g/README
Target /usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README
already exists. You may want to remove it:
rm '/usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README'
To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
brew link --overwrite ntfs-3g
To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run ntfs-3g
$ brew link --overwrite homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g/2015.3.14...
Error: Could not symlink share/doc/ntfs-3g/README
/usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g is not writable.
Am I going down a hole? If I brew uninstall, will it clean everything up, or do I have to manually clean it up?
This is getting messy...
EDIT2:
The output of brew link --overwrite --dry-run is:
$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g
Would remove:
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/acls.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/attrib.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/attrlist.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/bitmap.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/bootsect.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/cache.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/collate.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/compat.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/compress.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/debug.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/device.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/device_io.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/dir.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/ea.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/efs.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/endians.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/index.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/inode.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/ioctl.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/layout.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/lcnalloc.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/logfile.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/logging.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/mft.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/misc.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/mst.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/ntfstime.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/object_id.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/param.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/realpath.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/reparse.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/runlist.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/security.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/support.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/types.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/unistr.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/volume.h
/usr/local/include/ntfs-3g/xattrs.h
/usr/local/share/man/man8/mkfs.ntfs.8 -> /usr/local/share/man/man8/mkntfs.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/mkntfs.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/mount.lowntfs-3g.8 -> /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/mount.ntfs-3g.8 -> /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.probe.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.secaudit.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.usermap.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscat.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsclone.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscluster.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscmp.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscp.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsfix.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsinfo.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfslabel.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsls.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsprogs.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsresize.8
/usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsundelete.8
/usr/local/lib/libntfs-3g.86.dylib
/usr/local/lib/libntfs-3g.a
/usr/local/lib/libntfs-3g.dylib -> /usr/local/lib/libntfs-3g.86.dylib
/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libntfs-3g.pc
$
but even after 'brew uninstall...' the directory /usr/local/include/ntfs-3g still exists
Use brew link homebrew/fuse/ntfs-3g.
To go further here are the common commands relevant here:
brew install <formula> # install (and link) the formula
brew unlink <formula> # unlink the formula
brew link <formula> # link the formula
brew uninstall <formula> # uninstall (and unlink) the formula
To understand this you need to know that when Homebrew installs a formula foo version 1.2.3, it installs everything under /usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.2.3/ then symlinks all binaries in /usr/local/bin; all manpages under /usr/local/share/man; etc. This means that /usr/local/bin/something is not a binary but a symlink to the relevant binary (e.g. /usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.2.3/bin/something).
Sometimes binaries conflict with each other. For example both mysql and mariadb provide a mysql binary. Homebrew won’t be able to link both at the same time so it allows you to install one; unlink it; then install the other. That way you can have both on your system without conflict.
So I've been using homebrew to install various packages/libraries/programs on my mac. I keep running into a problem in which homebrew tells me that I have unlinked kegs in my Cellar.
For instance, upon running brew install phantomjs I received the following message:
Warning: Could not link phantomjs. Unlinking...
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link phantomjs'
Possible conflicting files are:
/usr/local/bin/phantomjs -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs
I tried running brew link phantomjs as recommended, and hit a similar problem:
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/phantomjs/1.9.2/bin/phantomjs
Target /usr/local/bin/phantomjs already exists. You may need to delete it.
To force the link and overwrite all other conflicting files, do:
brew link --overwrite formula_name
The command brew link --overwrite --dry-run phantomjs gives the following message:
Would remove:
/usr/local/bin/phantomjs -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs
I will probably go ahead and overwrite, but this appears to happen every time I try to install something with homebrew. Why? Why isn't homebrew working as expected?
Thanks.
From what I can tell, looks like you have previously done:
% sudo npm install -g phantomjs
In this case, you should do the following:
% sudo npm uninstall -g phantomjs
% brew link --overwrite phantomjs
I thought I'd take a crack at this. I ran into a similar problem today, and I think it may be related to this:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/22408
Long story short, I think it has to do with how npm manages packages vs how brew does it. (I'm assuming you installed node with its defaults, which would have given you npm).
At some point you probably installed some package with npm. Maybe grunt, karma, etc..those by default end up in /usr/local/lib/node_modules.
Maybe one of those packages or its dependencies(or sub-dependencies) depended on phantomjs (I think Karma might use phantomjs?) Anyways, if now you are trying to brew install phantomjs, which is trying to make a symlink to it, that may be conflicting with the already existing symlink that npm created for you..
I think you can change the symlink path for that package so that brew permanently points to that already installed package in the node_modules folder. Sorry not to be more specific, I'm just figuring this out myself.