I had php55 installed via homebrew and later installed php56 via homebrew.
I THOUGHT I had uninstalled php55 before installing php56, but am not sure anymore.
Anyhow, the php55 keg keeps magically reappearing in my Cellar folder everytime I restart my Mac, no matter if I uninstalled it before via homebrew or deleted it manually.
I just can't get rid of it, it is annoying! Please someone help me. Is there a list somewhere that tells homebrew which kegs to put in the Cellar on restart?
Thanks in advance!
I found it myself:
I forgot that I had added "homebrew.mxcl.php55.plist" to my ~/Library/LaunchAgents.
Remove that, and the keg stops reappearing.
Duh.
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I am trying to install Erlang in a Mac OS system with Mojave on it. However the installation hangs for no apparent reason:
$ asdf install erlang 22.2.8
asdf_22.2.8 is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation
The asdf_22.2.8 build has been deleted
Extracting source code
Building Erlang/OTP 22.2.8 (asdf_22.2.8), please wait...
I know the issue is not the network, as I have downloaded everything and the step that hangs forever is the Building step.
I have removed and re-installed both asdf and Erlang from scratch as well, but it didn't fix the issue.
I believe I have all necessary dependencies as well, otherwise the re-installation would have failed.
What can I do to fix this?
Go to ~/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_22.2.8 and look at the otp_build_22.2.8.log file. It should tell you what's going on.
Solution
Thanks to the post by #legoscia I went to ~/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_22.2.8 and looked at the otp_build_22.2.8.log while it was still being built.
By checking this I was actually able to find out that I had a problem with my brew installation, which in turn meant I was using a very outdated version of XCode and XTools.
By forcing an upgrade on my machine (and as a consequence fixing my broken brew installation), I was then able to smoothly run and install asdf install erlang.
I know this is the solution, but I will give credit to #legoscia, as without him/her I would not have been able to fix my issue.
Please help understand what is going on--or whether any action is required. I've gone through a lot of posts on dealing with brew, node, symlink, uninstalled and reinstalled node, npm, yarn, tried brew cleanup. When brew doctor produced these warnings--
Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/JSONStream
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/errno
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/is-ci
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/opener
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/qrcode-terminal
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/rc
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/semver
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/sshpk-conv
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/sshpk-sign
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/sshpk-verify
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/uuid
/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/which
When I tried brew prune, I got:
newmbp$ brew link node
Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/node/10.11.0
I noticed the files (to be linked or unlinked) are in separate folders, but have been struggling to understand the implications of having files in /usr/local/Cellar vs in /usr/local/lib
The precipitating factor that led to all of this was the fan on my laptop runs furiously from time to time, often while MAMP is running.
brew cleanup --prune-prefix (ex- brew prune) removed the broken symlinks, so the issue should be gone.
The fact that brew link node complains has nothing to do with this; it’s a completely different command. It’s not even an error, just a warning: "you asked me to link node but it’s already linked" so everything’s fine here.
Homebrew installs its files in /usr/local/Cellar. On the other hand, /usr/local/lib is a shared directory commonly used for libraries. In order for software to find libs Homebrew installed, it symlinks them in it.
For example, let’s say you have a formula foo version 1.2.3 that installs a library bar. After running brew install foo you should get something like this:
# the library files
/usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.2.3/lib/bar
# a symlink to the library files from /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/bar -> /usr/local/Cellar/foo/1.2.3/lib/bar
If you brew uninstall foo, it removes both the library files and the symlink.
Those Homebrew symlinks can be manipulated with brew unlink <formula> (remove them) and brew link <formula> (add them). brew install runs brew link for you so you don’t need to. This is the reason why you get a warning: your Node symlinks already exist.
brew doctor performs various checks, including check_for_broken_symlinks. This one looks into directories such as /usr/local/var or /usr/local/lib for broken symlinks. A broken symlink is a symlink whose target doesn’t exist, often because it has been removed.
The important point to understand here is that Homebrew looks at all symlinks, not just the ones it created. Broken symlinks may cause issues, which is why Homebrew warns you about them, but if everything’s working fine for you feel free to ignore the warning.
I am working on a formula to brew install postfix from source code in the my mac mini. I am able to make the makefiles, make, and make install the software, however brew link can not be completed due to the libdns.a needed to be linked into /usr/local/lib. There is a link in the directory with the same name from bind already installed previously. So, I need to ask for help to resolve the conflict.
Is there any workaround to relocate the link to /usr/local/lib/postfix, /usr/lib, or somewhere else?
Can I ignore the very link and just complete the rest? What will fail?
I recently decided to brew install stack, the Haskell package manager, but changed my mind midway and interrupted with ctrl+c. It looks like a reasonable amount of storage has been taken up on my computer by the install, however, so I think the downloaded files from the installation remain. How can I clean them out?
I've already tried brew cleanup but it only cleared a few things, maybe 20 mb in total. Is there a way to completely remove the remains of an interrupted Homebrew install? If not, any tips for going about it?
Thanks!
Have you tired brew doctor ? It usually gives a good idea of what might be going wrong. I would then suggest looking into the Cellar folder and search for leftovers.
Run the command
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
There will be files that will not be deleted, delete them manually. Deleting this worked for me /usr/local/Homebrew/
I'm trying to install homebrew on my mac verison 10.7.5, error msg comes up: The requested URL returned error: 404 Error: Failed to download resource "openssl" Download failed: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DomT4/LibreMirror/master/Open help! how do i fix?
Try update your brew
brew update
I have encountered the same issue on my mac (10.11 El Captian)
It's seems OpenSSL want to force users and package management softwares to update by removing their previous version.
I agree with #Webb Lu on this one.
Try brew update a few times. If this isn't working then try the command brew doctor to correct any errors.
If this fixes the issue, you may want to then run brew upgrade to upgrade anything that is out of date. For some reason I had to reinstall Xcode last night to run the upgrade command. Not sure what happened there, but it seemed to work for me.
I don't know if this is the solution for your issue, but I figured I'd throw my hat in the ring ha ha.
Best of luck!