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MariaDB - database folder changed?
I have MariaDB installed via Homebrew on MacOS.
I have local databases in /usr/local/var/mysql but a day or two ago, my local MariaDB now points to /opt/homebrew/var/mysql and does not find any of my ...
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Xcode repetitive installations
Xcode releases usually follow macOS releases. Until recently macOS Sonoma updated and I have to reinstall all my Xcode packages or simulators again. In addition to linking brew over again to recognize ...
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How to keep Homebrew apps clean and current - How to find installed apps no longer used
How do I know if I can or should clean up anything? I have a ton of installed apps, and a brew update takes forever.
I'd like to at least find which apps I no longer use.
I did brew autoremove, one ...
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How to run Homebrew service with flags?
I'm running on macOS Sonoma and trying to run this service called AutoRaise. Someone made a Homebrew package for it here. I installed it using Homebrew with my desired flag, brew install autoraise --...
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bash scripts not loading any of ~/.bash*
Context:
M1 MacBook
macOS Ventura 13.5.2
zsh as default shell
GNU coreutils installed by homebrew
/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin added to path in ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, and ~/....
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How to publish binary executables as homebrew taps for both MacOS and Linux?
I have a CLI tool, written in Rust, which I have successfully compiled and uploaded as my own Homebrew "tap" on GitHub at https://github.com/RandomStudio/homebrew-tether
Installation is as ...
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nano : where are "morespace" and "smooth" settings gone
In the transition from Cygwin+Windows to MacOS Monterey, I also tried to port my configuration of the nano editor. On the Mac, I had to use Homebrew (brew install nano) to get a decent nano, because ...
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How to untap all unused brew taps?
brew bundle dump outputs a bunch of taps for apps I installed, then uninstalled.
I could just try untapping every tap, and brew will refuse to untap anything in use. Like this without echo:
brew ...
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Java folder missing from openCV installation with homebrew
On my old MacBook Pro mid 2012 I was able to easily install openCV 4.5.2 with homebrew. After installation I had a java folder with a dylib file and a jar.
Now I bought a MacBook Pro M2 2022, ...
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How do I eliminate errors? - zprofile no such file or directory - macOS
I met the errors with .zprofile. I see this one every time I open the macOS terminal.
Terminal
/Users/leo/.zprofile:6: no such file or directory: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew
/Users/leo/.zprofile:7: no such ...
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/bin/ls -al --full-time does not recognize full-time in MacOS
I have 128,000 image file I recovered from a hard-drive failure. The software I used treated duplicates and deleted files the same way. ie it restored everything. As a result I have up to five ...
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Update or disable built-in library sqlite3 on MacOS?
On MacOS Monterey I installed subversion with brew install svn.
When I do an svn checkout in a terminal I get:
svn: E200029: Couldn't perform atomic initialization
svn: E200030: SQLite compiled for 3....
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Terminal commands (which, dirname, curl, and more) are all being killed by Zsh and don’t work in macOS on an M1-based Mac
I've recently-ish updated from an Intel-based Mac to an M1-based Mac and I was also switching off a beta 12.x OS to regular 12.x macOS.
I have no idea what is going on but it seems like my shell ...
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brew uninstall does not work cause of no space left on device
I have low space left on my device and it was time to made some cleanup...
I removed a lot of things, trash, uninstall unused apps, caches, ... BUT
I installed "League of legends" for Mac a ...
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zsh: command not found: brew while it exists
I remember that I used brew some time ago. But now when I try to run it I get
➜ ~ brew
zsh: command not found: brew
but there is an alias /usr/local/bin/brew which I can run.
Also it's ...
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Homebrew pros and cons on macOS
I have to reset a MacBook Pro (15 inch mid 2012, with macOS Catalina), and to rienstall all the applications after the reset I'm considering to use Homebrew instead of the traditional method (download ...
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macOS host Problems with QEMU audio on Debian installation
I want to virtualize debian 11.2 with QEMU. However, the guest operating system has no audio. Since I'm blind and therefore work with a screen reader, it's important that the sound works. My host is a ...
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Cannot uninstall ansible with pip or brew on Mac OSX
I cannot remove ansible from my machine.
If I run:
which ansible
/usr/local/bin/ansible
and
ansible --version
ansible 2.7.0
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Use homebrew to install encfs on macOS?
I'd like to use homebrew to install encfs on macOS. Ideally, this would look like:
brew install macfuse
brew install encfs
As of macOS 12/Monterey, the first command works, but the second one does ...
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Pip install doesn't work on m1 Mac
My pip isn't working. I tried installing it with ensurepip as well as with the official get-pip.py script. With the official installation script I get a warning:
WARNING: The scripts pip, pip3 and ...
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Ncdu is filled with ?~V~H garbled symbols after a reinstall of macOS Monterey
On my newest re-install of macOS Monterey ncdu suddenly looks really weird.
A lot of the directories are shown with ?~V~H behind and next to them.
This issue persists across multiple Terminal profiles....
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what process is calling `watchexec` in monterey (macos 12.1)?
After a routine reboot of Monterey (macOS 12.1) without having performed any software updates, I was asked to approve access for watchexec to various system locations such as ~/Documents and ~/Desktop ...
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Wish based tools (git-gui, gitk) showing broken/black UI on macOS Monterey
Wish based tools for instance git-gui and gitk are showing a black/broken screen after upgrading to macOS Monterey:
How can I fix this?
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Downgrade GnuPG using brew
I need to downgrade GnuPG in my system, so what I did was to first uninstall it:
brew uninstall gnupg
it uninstalled successfully (apparently)
Then I tried to install again the needed version:
brew ...
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How can I brew upgrade git if I can't get past this javac prompt?
I'm running into some odd issues with git today, so I thought I'd reinstall (or upgrade) it. Install and upgrade run into the same issue.
When I run java --version it says I have OpenJDK installed. OK,...
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git-lfs unable to install in apple silicon macOS monterey
i install git-lfs using homebrew
then i follow
# Update global git config
$ git lfs install
# Update system git config
$ git lfs install --system
I get the following error
WARNING: current user is ...
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Error with "brew install openblas" in macOS
I am trying to install openblas on a macOS HighSierra 10.13.6 with the following command
brew install openblas
Unfortunately I get this error...
brew install openblas
Updating Homebrew...
==> Auto-...
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Command line permissions in Mac
I’ve tried to install yarn using Homebrew and because the brew don’t have the permission to write I’ve written this command line in Terminal $sudo chown -R $(whoami) *
After this command my Mac is ...
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Homebrew pip issue 5599 on Intel macOS Big Sur
(I'm new here, so please be gentle)
When using topgrade in homebrew (I installed topgrade after installing homebrew with brew install topgrade) on macOS big sur on a 2020 Intel 13" default upper ...
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wget cannot verify GitHub.com's certificate
I am using macOS 10.15.7. I have installed wget via homebrew. My goal is to install orpie via opam. opam uses wget. My installation of wget cannot find the certificates it needs. How can I resolve ...
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Homebrew cannot download from homebrew.bintray.com, gives a curl error: "no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name"
When I try to install or upgrade any package hosted on homebrew.bintray.com, I get the following error:
curl: (60) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'homebrew....
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Unable to curl anything on my Mac curl: (7) Couldn't connect to server
All of the sudden I can't curl or run brew at all. I don't have any proxies enabled and I'm just running my personal mac on my home network. How can I debug/fix this issue?
scutil -r google.com ...
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Broken `/Library/Ruby/Site/2.6.0` on MacOS, cannot run `brew`
To start, I had these following annoying output when opening my terminal:
Ignoring bigdecimal-2.0.0 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine bigdecimal --version 2.0.0
Ignoring ...
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Operation Not Permitted on /usr/local/, Homebrew cannot be installed
Looking for some guidance on how to fix my permissions on my /usr/bin directory. I actually recently had a data recovery on my machine where I had to have my whole home directory copied to a new mac.
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ffmpeg command line error in MacOS Mojave: dyld: BIND_OPCODE_DO_BIND
I have a problem with the command line ffmpeg throwing an error whenever it is run.
I'm a long time video / mac / occasional linux user so I'm at home in CLI, but have very definite limits to my ...
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Install GNU "script" command on Mac
I have a Mac. I would like to use the GNU script that comes with CentOS as it is more full-featured than the BSD Mac version. Specifically, man script on a CentOS box gives:
-c, --command command
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How to programmatically get the list of directories that brew installs to?
I am writing a script that automates setting up my mac dev environment. I want to place the directories that brew installs first on my path, so that the default system commands are overridden by brew ...
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How to clean unused homebrew dependencies
How to remove all homebrew packages wich are not used by any other package?
Some packages are installed as dependency of other package. When packages are removed, dependent packages stay as leftovers.
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How to tell which Apache is running
I just updated to macOS Catalina (10.15.1).
I got me own Apache installed by HomeBrew. This Apache seems not to accept my configuration. I somehow think that Apple reenabled its default Apache and I ...
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JRELoadError when trying to open the jEdit text editor in MAC OS
I am getting JRELoadError when trying to open the jEdit application
But, I am able to open the application using the command from terminal:
java -jar /Applications/jEdit.app/Contents/java/jedit.jar
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Building inkscape beta with homebrew
I was wondering if I could use homebrew to get inkscape's beta. I know I can use it to get their current version with brew cask install inkscape but is there any way to get their beta?
Thanks in ...
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How do I fix Hydra not working in macOS?
I have already installed hydra with brew install hydra .
But when I run $ hydra in my terminal this error shows up.
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libgcrypt/lib/libgcrypt.20.dylib
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Do I need to delete the pre-install of git on mac OS before installing git via homebrew?
I don't want to have two versions of git on my machine that might interfere with one another. I heard the best way to install git is via homebrew. However, my mac OS comes with git pre-installed (...
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Mac OS X: brew reports python 3.7.3, python3 --version reports python 3.6.3. How to fix?
I'm running Mac OS X High Sierra 10.13.6.
When I do a "brew list python" from the terminal, it shows that I have python 3.7.3 installed:
user@laptop:~$ brew list python
/usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7....
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html.entities not found although using Python3
I wanted to get back into using Python regularly, for webscraping in particular. I installed pipenv with Homebrew and began installing requests and BeautifulSoup, but when I try to import ...
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HomeBrew error message OSX
I have installed the latest Brew on OSX. On running update or installing new formulas I get the following error:
Error: The following directories are not writable by your user:
/usr/local/share/man/...
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The program “postgres” is needed by pg_ctl but was not found
I tried to install postgresql on my macbook (mojave) through homebrew:
brew install postgresql
But when I try to start postgresql manually:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start
I get this ...
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Error: mongodb: unknown version :mountain_lion
I am running these simple commands on mac:
brew upgrade mongodb
or
brew install mongodb
I am getting this error below:
Error: mongodb: unknown version :mountain_lion
If i run the simple ...
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"brew install hive" failure
Here is what I've got today:
myname@mylaptop:~/tmp/123545/ brew install hive
==> Installing dependencies for hive: hadoop
==> Installing hive dependency: hadoop
==> Downloading https://www....
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GCC not working on macOS Majave?
I am trying to download some astronomy software (PINT) and when I perform make test, as suggested, it fails. I believe the problem is with my gcc compiler on my Mac. The error I am given is
$ ...
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