Is there a brew command to check if the formula I want to install is available as binary or I have to install it from source.
As corollary, if I need to install a particular formula by recompiling it with brew install --build-from-source XXXX all the packages on which that particular formula depend will be rebuilt from source too?
Thanks
brew info <formula> will tell you if a given formula is bottled (= compiled) for your system, e.g.:
$ brew info postgresql | head -n 1
postgresql: stable 9.5.1 (bottled)
You can get more info by using --json=v1:
# bottled formula
$ brew info --json=v1 postgresql | jq '.[0].bottle'
{
"stable": {
"revision": 0,
...
}
}
# non-bottled formula
$ brew info --json=v1 docker-machine-nfs | jq '.[0].bottle'
{}
if I need to install a particular formula by recompiling it with brew install --build-from-source XXXX all the packages on which that particular formula depend will be rebuilt from source too?
Only the dependencies you don’t already have will be built from source.
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My main goal was to have syntax highlighting for nano.
Apparently my nano seems to be pico 5.09 instead of nano.
Running which nano, returns:
/usr/bin/nano
Then I tried to install the real nano with brew, there I get this error:
Warning: Treating nano as a formula. For the cask, use homebrew/cask/nano
Error: nano dependencies not built for the arm64 CPU architecture:
gettext was built for x86_64
I think brew looks like the legit arm version.
which brew
/opt/homebrew/bin/brew
What could I do to have the end result of
Nano with syntax highlighting?
If your brew dependencies are out of date, this could happen.
% brew update && brew upgrade && brew install nano
Already up-to-date.
...
% brew install nano
Warning: Treating nano as a formula. For the cask, use homebrew/cask/nano
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/nano/manifests/6.4
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/nano/blobs/sha256:7206f1c20ac7f
==> Downloading from https://pkg-containers.githubusercontent.com/ghcr1/blobs/sh
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring nano--6.4.arm64_monterey.bottle.tar.gz
==> nano cask is installed, skipping link.
🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/nano/6.4: 103 files, 3.2MB
==> Running `brew cleanup nano`...
Disable this behaviour by setting HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP.
Hide these hints with HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS (see `man brew`).
How to prevent Homebrew from installing a certain dependency formula when installing any future formulae? On my mac, python is provided by conda and I don't want duplicate pythons. Every time I install a python-dependent formula it gets automatically installed.
First, have a look the dependencies you need for the formula. (use brew deps --tree xpdf for a tree view)
brew deps -n formula
dep1
dep2
Then install the dependencies you want manually.
brew install dep1
And finally install the formula using --ignore-dependencies.
brew install --ignore-dependencies formula
#Pau's answer worked for me. One thing to add is that brew deps
will show all dependencies including optional and already installed ones so it made it hard for me when there were more than a dozen.
I ended up using brew info
brew info openjdk
#... basic info
==> Dependencies
Build: autoconf ✘, pkg-config ✔
Required: giflib ✔, harfbuzz ✔, jpeg-turbo ✔, libpng ✔, little-cms2 ✔
==> Requirements
Build: Xcode ✘
Required: macOS >= 10.15 ✔
#... more info
Then the key part of the answer that #Pau pointed out is to install with
brew install --ignore-dependencies openjdk
I'm trying to install wxWidgets on Mac OS X 10.9. It's already installed, but I'm having the problem described here. Someone suggested to add ENV.append_to_cflags "-stdlib=libc++". I did, but I'm not able to recompile the code.
$ brew install wxmac
Warning: wxmac-3.0.0 already installed
$ brew edit wxmac
=> ok, modifications done, now I want to recompile and reinstall
$ brew uninstall wxmac
Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/wxmac/3.0.0...
$ brew install wxmac
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/wxmac- 3.0.0.mavericks.bottle.2.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/wxmac-3.0.0.mavericks.bottle.2.tar.gz
==> Pouring wxmac-3.0.0.mavericks.bottle.2.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/wxmac/3.0.0: 775 files, 41M
How can I force homebrew to recompile?
Homebrew is installing wxmac in bottle form (a pre-compiled binary of wxmac). To build from source, add the --build-from-source flag when calling brew install:
$ brew install --build-from-source wxmac
To rebuild all installed FORMULAE from source:
$ brew list | xargs brew reinstall --build-from-source
I'm looking for a way to show only the formulas I installed without the installed dependencies.
I want to have a list of all the programs I actually installed, without all noise of the dependencies.
I do know about brew list which lists all installed formulas.
I also know that brew graph gives me a dependency graph in the graphviz
Or in other words: I want to have the minimal set of formulas to reinstall my system.
Use brew leaves: show installed formulae that are not dependencies of another installed formula.
$ brew deps --installed
tmux: pkg-config libevent
q:
gdbm:
libxml2:
asciidoc: docbook
libevent:
pkg-config:
pcre:
docbook:
zsh: gdbm pcre
readline:
emacs: pkg-config
This seems to give us a list of all installed formulae including their dependencies. We can build a list of all formulae and a list of all dependencies and subtract the dependencies from the list of formulae, this should give us a list of formulae which are not dependencies of other formulae:
$ cat brew-root-formulae.sh
#!/bin/sh
brew deps --installed | \
awk -F'[: ]+' \
'{
packages[$1]++
for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++)
dependencies[$i]++
}
END {
for (package in packages)
if (!(package in dependencies))
print package
}'
.
$ ./brew-root-formulae.sh
zsh
asciidoc
libxml2
readline
tmux
q
emacs
Is this the output you are after?
The question is quite old, but actually only this answer resolves the issue. However, it's more like a workaround. But there's one more solution available out-of-the-box in brew:
brew bundle dump --file -
From docs:
brew bundle dump:
Write all installed casks/formulae/images/taps into a Brewfile in the
current directory.
and the flag:
--file
Read the Brewfile from this location.
Use --file=- to pipe to stdin/stdout.
As a result we get e.g.:
tap "homebrew/bundle"
tap "homebrew/cask"
tap "homebrew/cask-fonts"
tap "homebrew/core"
tap "homebrew/services"
tap "jesseduffield/lazydocker"
tap "jesseduffield/lazygit"
brew "lazydocker"
brew "lazygit"
cask "font-sauce-code-pro-nerd-font"
If you e.g. need a pure list of formulae and casks, without taps, you can just run:
brew bundle dump --file - | grep '^brew\|^cask' | sed 's/.* "\(.*\)".*$/\1/'
and get:
lazydocker
lazygit
font-sauce-code-pro-nerd-font
P.S. If you actually save the output to the file (with brew bundle dump or brew bundle dump --file PATH_TO_FILE), you can easily install all the dependencies from it with brew bundle install:
brew bundle [install]:
Install and upgrade (by default) all dependencies from the Brewfile.
You can specify the Brewfile location using --file or by setting the
HOMEBREW_BUNDLE_FILE environment variable.
this shows installed formulas as a tree.
brew deps --installed --tree
only show dependencies one level down
brew deps --1 --installed --tree
only show installed php formula
brew deps --installed --tree php
opens a website for visualization
brew deps --installed --graph php
I have a few kegs of the same package in /usr/local/Cellar/libfoo like /usr/local/Cellar/libfoo/1.0.1, /usr/local/Cellar/libfoo/HEAD and /usr/local/Cellar/libfoo/mycopy
How can I brew link to a specific version?
This is probably the best way as of 11.1.2022:
To install a specific version, e.g. postgresql 9.5 you simply run:
$ brew install postgresql#9.5
To list the available versions run a search with #:
$ brew search postgresql#
==> Formulae
postgresql postgresql#11 postgresql#13 postgresql#9.5 qt-postgresql
postgresql#10 postgresql#12 postgresql#9.4 postgresql#9.6 postgrest
==> Casks
navicat-for-postgresql
DEPRECATED in Homebrew 2.6.0 (December 2020):
The usage info:
Usage: brew switch <formula> <version>
Example:
brew switch mysql 5.5.29
You can find the versions installed on your system with info.
brew info mysql
And to see the available versions to install, you can provide a dud version number, as brew will helpfully respond with the available version numbers:
brew switch mysql 0
Update (15.10.2014):
The brew versions command has been removed from brew, but, if you do wish to use this command first run brew tap homebrew/boneyard.
The recommended way to install an old version is to install from the homebrew/versions repo as follows:
$ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew install mysql55
For detailed info on all the ways to install an older version of a formula read this answer.
Sadly brew switch is deprecated in Homebrew 2.6.0 (December 2020)
$ brew switch
Error: Unknown command: switch
TLDR, to switch to package version 10:
brew unlink package
brew link package#10
To use another version of a package, for example node:
First, ensure that the specific version is installed using brew list. My package here is node (16) and node#14.
➜ ~ brew list
==> Formulae
node
node#14
➜ ~ node -v
v16.1.0
Unlink the current package: brew unlink node.
➜ ~ brew unlink node
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/node/16.1.0... 7 symlinks removed.
Link the correct version
➜ ~ brew link node#14
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node#14/14.16.1_1... 3857 symlinks created.
If you need to have this software first in your PATH instead consider running:
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node#14/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
➜ ~ node -v
v14.16.1
Homebrew removed brew switch subcommand in Homebrew 2.6.0. Get it back from here.
brew tap laggardkernel/tap
brew switch --help
name#version formula
There's mainly two ways to switch to an old version of an app.
If it's a bigger version change. Homebrew may have created a versioned package in the repo. Like go, go#1.10, they are two different formulae, installed into two different locations.
# install the old one
brew install go#1.10
# link the executable into /usr/local/bin, or /opt/homebrew/bin
brew link --overwrite --force go#1.10
brew switch
But not every package has a versioned variant. If you just upgraded to the new version and the old one is still in your system, skip step 1, 2.
In this situation, search in the homebrew-core repo and download the specific formula. e.g. mysql 8.0.23
Download the raw file, and install from it brew install /path/to/downloaded/mysql.rb.
Now both the latest and the old 8.0.23 (same formula mysql) exist, switch (link out) the old version with brew switch mysql 8.0.23
brew info mysql will list all the old version still exist.
Step 1, 2 could be replaced by brew extract, but that requires user maintain its own tap. I won't cover it here, just search it if you're interested.
If you have installed, for example, php 5.4 it could be switched in the following way to php 5.5:
$ php --version
PHP 5.4.32 (cli) (built: Aug 26 2014 15:14:01)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
$ brew unlink php54
$ brew switch php55 5.5.16
$ php --version
PHP 5.5.16 (cli) (built: Sep 9 2014 14:27:18)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
brew switch libfoo mycopy
You can use brew switch to switch between versions of the same package, if it's installed as versioned subdirectories under Cellar/<packagename>/
This will list versions installed ( for example I had Cellar/sdl2/2.0.3, I've compiled into Cellar/sdl2/2.0.4)
brew info sdl2
Then to switch between them
brew switch sdl2 2.0.4
brew info
Info now shows * next to the 2.0.4
To install under Cellar/<packagename>/<version> from source you can do for example
cd ~/somewhere/src/foo-2.0.4
./configure --prefix $(brew --Cellar)/foo/2.0.4
make
check where it gets installed with
make install -n
if all looks correct
make install
Then from cd $(brew --Cellar) do the switch between version.
I'm using brew version 0.9.5
In case brew switch produces an error (in this example trying to switch to node version 14):
> brew switch node 14
Error: Calling `brew switch` is disabled! Use `brew link` #-versioned formulae instead.
The correct way switching versions would be :
> brew link --overwrite node#14
if #simon's answer is not working in some of the mac's please follow the below process.
If you have already installed swiftgen using the following commands:
$ brew update
$ brew install swiftgen
then follow the steps below in order to run swiftgen with older version.
Step 1: brew uninstall swiftgen
Step 2: Navigate to: https://github.com/SwiftGen/SwiftGen/releases
and download the swiftgen with version: swiftgen-4.2.0.zip.
Unzip the package in any of the directories.
Step 3:
Execute the following in a terminal:
$ mkdir -p ~/dependencies/swiftgen
$ cp -R ~/<your_directory_name>/swiftgen-4.2.0/ ~/dependencies/swiftgen
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ ln -s ~/dependencies/swiftgen/bin/swiftgen swiftgen
$ mkdir ~/Library/Application\ Support/SwiftGen
$ ln -s ~/dependencies/swiftgen/templates/ ~/Library/Application\ Support/SwiftGen/
$ swiftgen --version
You should get: SwiftGen v0.0 (Stencil v0.8.0, StencilSwiftKit v1.0.0, SwiftGenKit v1.0.1)