Homebrew Error: No formulae found in taps - macos

Question

I'm trying to install paramiko on my MacBook Pro (OSX Sierra) without going through Xcode because I'm too lazy to install Xcode honestly.
When trying to run:
brew install paramiko
I get:
Error: No available formula with the name "paramiko"
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
I've tried untapping home-brew via:
brew untap homebrew
And I get:
Error: No available tap homebrew/php.
Also tried:
brew tap --repair
brew update
Nothing besides:
Updated 1 tap (caskroom/cask).
No changes to formulae.
If I have to go through Xcode, that's fine but I feel the issue here is not the installation process but something weird with the taps...

Answer 1

This worked for me.
run brew doctor
Warning: Some taps are not on the default git origin branch and may
not receive updates. If this is a surprise to you, check out the
default branch with: git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout
master
then run git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core)

Answer 2

Run this command:
git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master
this will switch to master, then run
brew doctor
this should run without any error.
If there is no error you can install anything with brew install
ex: brew install wget

Answer 3

I ran:
brew doctor
which gave me as first warning:
Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:
rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
brew tap homebrew/core
Running those 2 commands above solved the problem for me.

Answer 4

I was also facing the same issue when installing Node via brew.
I fixed it by running two commands:
$ brew doctor
This shows me this warning:
Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:
rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
brew tap homebrew/core
Then I ran these two commands to fix the warning:
$ rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
$ brew tap homebrew/core
And then I tried installing Node:
$ brew install node
It worked.

Answer 5

See if the following approach in the following link helps.
Depending upon your pip/python/xcode version, brew may not work in installing python or python3.
I installed Python3 binary .pkg for Mac from their site, installed it on Mac.
Then, opened a new Terminal window and did:
which python3 && python3 --version && which pip3 && pip3 --version
pip3 install paramiko
brew or pip - install credstash - errors - No named formulae found in taps / OSErr six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info operation not permitted

Answer 6

Apparently, I also had this issue, I'm a developer.
I want to develop an OS with a command known as i686-elf-gcc, but with homebrew it doesn't work. So, use this:
brew doctor
And a warning will show up:
Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:
rm -rf "/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
brew tap homebrew/core
So run these:
rm -rf "/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
brew tap homebrew/core
After that, I tried installing my package:
brew install i686-elf-gcc
And, it worked, it should also work for you.

Answer 7

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dart/bin/pub /usr/bin/pub
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dart/bin/dart2js /usr/bin/dart2js

Answer 8

git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master
this command helps