This is what the terminal says after I put in this command brew tap homebrew/headonly
haven't tried anything to solve it yet, any suggestions please?
==> Tapping homebrew/headonly Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-headonly'...
remote: Repository not found. fatal: repository 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-headonly/' not found Error:
Failure while executing; `git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-headonly /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-headonly --depth=1`
exited with 128
.
It’s normal: homebrew/headonly has been deprecated a long time ago, the repository doesn’t exist anymore. It was hard to maintain and so it didn’t really make sense to keep having it since anyone can create their own tap.
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I recently installed Homebrew via terminal, but I get some errors when I try to use it to install other programs.
This is an example situation when I try to install pyenv.
brew install pyenv
This is the output of above command:
Running `brew update --preinstall`...
Warning: No available formula with the name "ca-certificates".
==> 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.
Error:
homebrew-cask is a shallow clone.
To `brew update`, first run:
git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask fetch --unshallow
This command may take a few minutes to run due to the large size of the repository.
This restriction has been made on GitHub's request because updating shallow
clones is an extremely expensive operation due to the tree layout and traffic of
Homebrew/homebrew-core and Homebrew/homebrew-cask. We don't do this for you
automatically to avoid repeatedly performing an expensive unshallow operation in
CI systems (which should instead be fixed to not use shallow clones). Sorry for
the inconvenience!
Error: pyenv: undefined method `cellar' for #<BottleSpecification:0x00007fd7720b4360>
I had the exact same problem.
What solved my issue on macOS Monterey 12.1 was to investigate the problem with brew doctor and then do as the output recommended.
The output of brew doctor informed me that the homebrew/homebrew-core hasn't been tapped properly and recommended the following commands:
rm -rf "/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
brew tap homebrew/core
Then I just continued with Pyenv's installation process and everything worked.
I try to update Homebrew as usual. Recently when I issue the command brew update, the following error occurs:
Error: Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/facebook/homebrew-fb failed!
The Tap is associated with the software Buck, which I need for development.
I further investigate the issue by following the installation instruction in the Buck official website, I issue the command again:
% brew tap facebook/fb
==> Unshallowing facebook/fb
fatal: couldn't find remote ref refs/heads/master
Error: Failure while executing; `git fetch --unshallow` exited with 128.
Apparently, the Git source has problems. I try to "untap" it:
% brew untap facebook/fb
Error: Refusing to untap facebook/fb because it contains the following installed formulae or casks:
buck
No luck. How can I resolve this problem?
This error is the result of Facebook renaming the branch master to main.
To fix this, first change into Homebrew's local tap folder:
cd /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/facebook/homebrew-fb
Then, run the following Git commands to update the local repo:
git branch --unset-upstream
git config remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/origin/main'
git fetch --prune origin
git branch -m main
git branch -u origin/main
git remote set-head origin -a
Finally, remove the no longer needed master ref (optional):
rm .git/refs/remotes/origin/master
That's it, you should now be able to successfully run brew update.
I'm trying to install Homebrew on macOS. Once the installation finished, when I typed help I got:
Already downloaded: /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
Error: Checksum mismatch.
Expected: ab81211a2052ccaa6d050741c433b728d0641523d8742eef23a5b450811e5104
Actual: f80fd4cc877a64b0ac1c105fdc212ca6be08bb034118900f2c2f58edcfe0dafd
Archive: /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.
Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby (and your system version is too old)!
I had the same question, and the solution is simple: remove the portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz you downloaded before.
rm /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
Try running brew update-reset in your terminal and then run brew upgrade in the same terminal.
"Homebrew install fails with Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby" helped me tremendously.
It would fail to install, because our company firewall was blocking certain downloads, like bottle, during the Homebrew update/install, but it was difficult to determine this because I would get the error above.
After removing the file, try
brew upgrade
brew update
on your personal Wifi or your phone's hotspot.
I fixed it.
First, I deleted the brew file that stores in the Library folder when using macOS.
The failure before was due to the connection. When I make sure the connection worked, it worked.
Remove the Homebrew Portable Ruby tar.gz from your Mac using:
rm <the path.tar.gz>
rm -rf <the path.tar.gz>
I've been automating this for years. There is a new something(?) in play during the Homebrew install.
I had the same error as above. I filed an issue report and got a response that fixed my problem:
CI=1 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
I'm not sure what prefixing with CI=1 does but all my automation issues went away.
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above, then run:
rm /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portableruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
and try again
my problem was:
Already downloaded: ../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.8_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring portable-ruby-2.6.8_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
Error: Failed to install ruby 2.6.8_1!
Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby (and your system version is too old)!
Fixed with opening the system app for terminal and installing Rosetta into the prompt. This happened after system update MacOS to 11.6.7
After resolving this brew did brew upgrade finish well.
Hope this helps someone.
Here is how I fixed it:
brew cleanup then brew upgrade
Simple brew install v8 command is giving me the following results.
Warning: Your Xcode (5.0.2) is outdated
Please update to Xcode 5.1.
Xcode can be updated from the App Store.
==> Downloading https://github.com/v8/v8/archive/3.21.17.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/v8-3.21.17.tar.gz
==> Checking out http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk'
svn: E175002: OPTIONS of 'http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (http://gyp.googlecode.com)
Error: Failed to download resource "v8--gyp"
Failure while executing: svn checkout -q --force http://gyp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk /Library/Caches/Homebrew/v8--gyp--svn -r 1685
Unable to decipher the problem here. Any information at this point would really help.
Found this! Seems to be an issue with AnyConnect.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/113717/svn-cant-co-source-code
I ran sudo /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/websecurity_uninstall.sh and voila
I've got the same probleme, but I found another solution.
Simply reinstalling svn :
brew install svn
Removing old version :
rm /usr/local/bin/svnversion
Recreate link :
brew link subversion
And then install v8
brew install v8
I got yet another solution: my xcode installation was brand new and I never accepted the terms and conditions. Just try to execute $ svn and the terms and conditions of xcode will prompt
I've searched around a bit and can't seem to find any record of anyone else with this problem.
Whenever I try to run
$ brew update
I am rewarded with
/usr/local/bin/brew:34: uninitialized constant MACOS (NameError)
This isn't my machine and I normally develop on Linux systems so this is all a bit odd to me.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Please tell me if there is any additional info I should provide. Again, I'm not used to homebrew or OSX.
EDIT
at the request of JameA
xiao:~ patrick$ brew doctor
/usr/local/bin/brew:34: uninitialized constant MACOS (NameError)
xiao:~ patrick$ brew --config
/usr/local/bin/brew:34: uninitialized constant MACOS (NameError)
...Not sure I like this whole "here, use this macbook for the project, it works better" thing...
I'm pretty sure the root cause of this is a failed upgrade attempt to Homebrew 0.9.5 from a much earlier version. Basically, if you run brew update as opposed to sudo brew update a portion of files are updated, while others are not. Here's what worked for me:
Edit /usr/local/bin/brew (it's just a Ruby file, not a compiled binary, so any text editor will do). You'll find a block like:
if MACOS and MACOS_VERSION < 10.5
abort <<-EOABORT.undent
Homebrew requires Leopard or higher. For Tiger support, see:
https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew
EOABORT
end
Comment this out. Even if you don't know Ruby, you can probably intuit what this is doing—it's checking to see if you have a current version of OSX. Assuming that you do in fact have this version, this sanity check isn't necessary. Brew is still broken, but at least now it will load far enough to give error messages.
Run sudo brew update, spoiler alert: it fails, but this time with a meaningful error message:
$ brew update
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by merge:
[giant list of files here]
Well, today I learned that brew update is just a wrapper for git pull because anyone who has worked with git knows that error message. We can fix this too.
Switch into the homebrew git repository with cd /usr/local and give the command git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD.
This piece found here.
Give the command sudo brew update. Homebrew should now update successfully and work properly!
Once the system is working again, you can actually kind of see why an error like this would have occurred. For one, usr/local/bin/brew has been completely rewriten and isn't even Ruby anymore, and most of its configuration has been moved into /usr/local/Library/brew.rb which no longer uses the constants MACOS or MACOS_VERSION constants, as they have been replaced by the more object oriented OS.mac and MacOS.version.
The MACOS constant is set in globals.rb. It seems like you may have a borked installation of Homebrew.
Check the output of brew doctor for any suggestions.
If that doesn't help please update with the results of brew --config.
If all else fails you may want to try re-installing Homebrew.
UPDATE:
Since this was a previous user's machine make sure your user is the owner of /usr/local and everything within. Fix it with sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local.
I had a similar issue, when I Killed an install mid-way with Ctrl-D.
Post that whenever I tried installing anything it gave the following error
uninitialized constant Homebrew::CLI::Parser::ARGV_WITHOUT_MONKEY_PATCHING
As a fix, I went to the directory I had where homebrew was installed, and reset the HEAD.
cd /usr/local/Homebrew
git status
git checkout .
And then it started working magically.
I had a similar error with a "borked" installation of brew. I removed the small 5 line block of code in the /usr/local/bin/brew script starting with the MACOS line. That did the trick to allow me to uninstall and eventually reinstall it.
In addition to Matt Korostoff's answer.
On point 3 (resetting the repo), for recent version of Homebrew, the repo is no longer /usr/local, do cd "$(brew --repo)" instead.