I'm having a problem re-installing homebrew. I am running Mavericks
It started with me trying to install express.js. Homebrew had been installed on my mac for quite some time, never had any trouble with it. I used sudo npm install -g express, but when I ran express --version, I got command not found. Eventually, I found a possible solution online, and just tried to reinstall npm with brew remove npm and brew install npm. Again, I ran into errors (Unfortunately, I didn't save the exact errors) I used brew doctor to try and figure it out, looked up a ton of tutorials and mucked around with homebrew, and I guess I broke something.
Now, I figure I should just try and reinstall homebrew.
I run the install command for homebrew:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It returns this message:
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
So, I run
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
This returns:
-bash: brew: command not found
I try running the install command again, and this time, it doesn't tell me homebrew is already installed.
So again, I run the install command for homebrew:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
And now I get this:
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g+rwx /Library/Caches/Homebrew
Password:
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 136, done.
remote: Total 136 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (136/136), 10.37 MiB | 1.53 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (44/44), done.
From https://github.com/Onomanatee/portfolio_Yuri_Legiest
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
HEAD is now at c253261 Commit4
==> Installation successful!
==> Next steps
Run brew doctor before you install anything
Run brew help to get started
Running brew doctor or brew help , however, results in
-bash: brew: command not found
I really don't know how to fix this. And why is the brew installer referring to a repository I used as a test for a little web project? (right above Installation succesful!)
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I have a Macbook Pro that has an M1 Chip that is causing issues trying to install Homebrew. I have followed the steps in this article: https://mac.install.guide/homebrew/3.html but when I get to the Homebrew install and I type brew in the terminal I get this
Example usage:
brew search TEXT|/REGEX/
brew info [FORMULA|CASK...]
brew install FORMULA|CASK...
brew update
brew upgrade [FORMULA|CASK...]
brew uninstall FORMULA|CASK...
brew list [FORMULA|CASK...]
Troubleshooting:
brew config
brew doctor
brew install --verbose --debug FORMULA|CASK
Contributing:
brew create URL [--no-fetch]
brew edit [FORMULA|CASK...]
Further help:
brew commands
brew help [COMMAND]
man brew
https://docs.brew.sh
Shouldn't it tell me what version of Homebrew I have and that it's installed?
I am trying to set up my Homebrew so that I can use it with git. I am trying to do brew install git and brew install git-lfs but I get the below error messages when I try to do that.
fatal: Could not resolve HEAD to a revision
Warning: No available formula with the name "git".
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
Shouldn't it tell me what version of Homebrew I have and that it's installed?
To find the installed version, use the -v option.
% brew -v
Homebrew 3.6.0
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e5722d08e47; last commit 2022-09-09)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask (git revision 0dc06a0f09; last commit 2022-09-09)
fatal: Could not resolve HEAD to a revision
You will need to reinstall, and make sure it uses /opt/homebrew because you are on an M1.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
There shouldn't be any errors displayed when this runs.
I used to have Homebrew installed, but then at some point it broke, so I tried reinstalling it.
I tried running:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It gave:
-e:70: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local in PATH, mode 040777
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
(I don't know why it says it is installed, running brew gives "zsh: command not found: brew")
So I tried running that:
zsh: command not found: brew
Then I tried running it without brew clean-up. Which executed. I re-ran:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
It starts downloading and installing until it gets to this point:
Downloading and installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 226839, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (59610/59610), done.
remote: Total 226839 (delta 165997), reused 226815 (delta 165979)
Receiving objects: 100% (226839/226839), 52.14 MiB | 135.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (165997/165997), done.
From https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
* [new branch] master -> origin/master
warning: unable to access 'bin/.gitattributes': Permission denied
error: unable to create file bin/brew (Permission denied)
fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'origin/master'.
Failed during: git reset --hard origin/master
Tried adding sudo:
sudo ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Gives:
Don't run this as root!
I don't know where to go from here. Can someone help me?
Did you restart your terminal after installing zsh? brew is possibly not loaded for zshell. Also you need to add usr/local/ to your $path in .zshrc zsh configuration file should be in the in root ~/.zshrc
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 trying to install glue 0.3 for OXS Mountain Lion and ran into this error after installing homebrew (Error: Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root. However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at your own risk.) I got this error after the first step for installing glue 0.3 ($ sudo brew install jpeg). No idea how to fix this...please help!
sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/brew
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
Use the above command instead of changing the owner of brew to root.
This is the suggested method by the Owner of homebrew in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/9953
Answered by the developers here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/9953
I solved it by NOT using sudo, and changing the permissions on whatever file it says cannot be accessed without sudo.
For example, I could not access /usr/local/Cellar, so I entered the following (as specified here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/3930)
sudo chmod g+w /usr/local/Cellar
sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/Cellar
For High Sierra macOS 10.13.3 or newer.
None of the solutions given here worked for me on this version. The only (and the best) fix is to uninstall brew and install it again with the following terminal commands. Note you will lose your current kegs, so you should get a list of the installed kegs, for reinstalling them after reinstalling brew as shown below under step 1. Actually, this was a good opportunity for me to get rid of those kegs that I am no longer using:
List your current kegs for reinstalling, those you wan't to keep:
brew list
Uninstall brew:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
Reinstall brew:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Optionally to prevent your usage being sent to Google Analytics (Update: Fortunately, now this has been stopped, so you may skip this step):
brew analytics off
Finally reinstall your previous kegs from step 1 (or those you still want to use). Replace the text with the square brackets with the list, (i.e. brew install sqlite heroku ):
brew install [list of kegs from step 1]
I have updated my macos to sierra and npm stopped working. Below are the steps followed to fix them.
Uninstall Node and install it from brew and follow the below steps
sudo chmod g+w /usr/local/Cellar
sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/Cellar
sudo chown root /usr/local/bin/brew
sudo brew postinstall node
This was helpful for me
http://digitizor.com/fix-cowardly-refusing-sudo-error-brew/
As quoted in the text, you essentially have to change the user and group of brew to root and wheel respectively.
unknown7cd1c37eb7ca:local shoaibali$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
-e:67: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
-e:96: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to reinstall you
should do the following before running this installer again:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
unknown7cd1c37eb7ca:local shoaibali$ ls
CONTRIBUTING.md foreman hw_mp_userdata
Library git libexec
PortDetect.log heroku opt
bin hw_mobile_userdata share
unknown7cd1c37eb7ca:local shoaibali$
I have some problems with my brew when I was trying to install ffmpeg. I think I did the immature thing (note - after hours of trying) of uninstalling brew (through some article i read online) and trying to reinstall it. But the above output comes in my terminal when I try to install brew again. How can it say Homebrew is already installed when clearly the Cellar file isn't there ?
I had the same issue.
There was no directory called., /usr/local/Cellar but brew installation kept reporting it is already installed.
I resolved the issue by doing the following.,
Step 1 : run
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
(It reported error and didn't run successfully., but I believe it did cleanup)
Step 2 : Being from Windows world., restarted the terminal
Step 3 : Ran again
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"
It ran successfully.,
A simple
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/.git
fixed my problem and I could re-install brew
I tried this solution but running "brew cleanup" when the system doesn't detect brew is not possible XD
I came up with a possible solution... I've tried to install MacPort and also didn't installed well, but it seems to uninstall (somehow) brew, so I could reinstall it from scratch
And this time it works! So, maybe it helps somebody!
PS: I think my original problem was that I had internet connection problem when I installed Brew for the first time, and didn't installed well