I installed ruby via \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable and did rvm install 1.9.2 doing this creates and error
Installing requirements for osx, might require sudo password.
fatal: Unable to create '/usr/local/.git/index.lock': Permission denied
Error: Failure while executing: git checkout -q master
Failed to update Homebrew, follow instructions here:
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Common-Issues and make sure `brew update` works before continuing.
Upon doing a which git it shows it's installed in /usr/bin/git yeah homebrew keeps trying to reference /usr/local/.git. I tried unistalling homebrew so I can do a fresh install using what's listed at homebrew gist. All seemed well but doing a which brew still shows it as /usr/local/bin/brew so I tried to manually uninstall it by doing it one by one.
One thing to note is I never had a Cellar folder, why I don't know. While doing a brew prune I noticed a lot of macport items are starting to ask if I should override them.
Is it typical to of ran the uninstall script but still have the brew commands available or the dirs?
Why is it that homebrew needs root access to /user/local/ to work, this is extremely bad.
That /usr/local/.git it's referencing is not the git executable, but the config file for the repository it's trying to set up under /usr/local/. It's trying to write to that file.
To run homebrew you need write permissions to /usr/local as the user you'r going to run brew as. Homebrew's recommended method is to adjust the ownership and permissions on /usr/local to allow you to write to it from your regular user account or a dedicated homebrew account, instead of using sudo. This is done as part of the homebrew installation script, typically by putting you in the admin group and making /usr/local group-writable.
To fix this, check the owner and permissions on /usr/local/ and /usr/local/.git and make sure you can write to them (and the rest of the /usr/local/ hierarchy) as the user that you're running brew and RVM commands as.
Ended up just doing a sudo $USER as I really could not find any other approach to fixing this.
Related
According to the rvm documentation at
https://rvm.io/rvm/install
it should be possible to install rvm, and subsequently a ruby, as a non-privileged user.
Under troubleshooting at
https://rvm.io/support/troubleshooting
it states:
Any user in the rvm group can update RVM, rubies, and gemsets. There
is never a reason to use sudo post-install.
rvm installs fine as a non-privileged user (There is no rvm group):
nosudo-user#my-site.com:~$ bash ~/downloads/rvm_installer.sh stable
Downloading https://github.com/rvm/rvm/archive/1.29.12.tar.gz
Downloading https://github.com/rvm/rvm/releases/download/1.29.12/1.29.12.tar.gz.asc
...
Installing RVM to /<user-home>/.rvm/
...
However, when I try to install a ruby version, it fails (I think) trying to do an apt-get because it needs sudo privileges:
nosudo-user#my-site.com:~$ rvm install 2.6.6
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/20.04/x86_64/ruby-2.6.6.tar.bz2
...
Updating system... password required for 'apt-get --quiet --yes update':
.
Error running 'requirements_debian_update_system ruby-2.6.6',
please read /<user-home>/.rvm/log/1659735568_ruby-2.6.6/update_system.log
Requirements installation failed with status: 1.
From the log:
2022-08-05 21:39:28] requirements_debian_update_system
requirements_debian_update_system ()
{
__rvm_try_sudo apt-get --quiet --yes update || {
\typeset __ret=$?;
case ${__ret} in
100)
rvm_error "There has been an error while updating your system using \`apt-get\`.
It seems that there are some 404 Not Found errors for repositories listed in:
/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
apt-get update (as a user with sudo privileges) shows no errors.
How is one supposed to install rvm so a non-privileged user can install a version of ruby?
My guess is your system is missing some basic system libraries for buiding Ruby from source. Hence RVM tries to fetch the build libraries for you. This will be a one-time update, and after your system has the proper libraries installed, RVM will not require sudo again.
However if you want you can disable apt updating completely with:
rvm autolibs disable
Note that if you have missing build requirements, then the build step of Ruby will quite likely fail. Only way to find out is to try.
In that case you can use the requirements command to help you install missing dependencies:
rvm requirements
Casper's answer above provided the missing information; there were some missing libraries. However, the steps required to be able to install as an unprivileged user were rather un-intuitive (to me, at least):
Install rvm using sudo; in that process it creates the "rvm" group.
Add the desired users to the rvm group
Note:
Attempting to install a ruby as an unprivileged user after this step still fails.
sudo to root to get the rvm magic paths installed for root, then start installing a ruby, but kill the process after the requirements installation is complete.
Log in as the desired unprivileged user and use rvm to install the desired ruby for that user.
Cmds:
sudo rvm_installer.sh stable
sudo usermod -a -G rvm the-user
sudo -i
rvm install 2.6.6
Searching for binary rubies, this might take some time.
Found remote file https://rvm_io.global.ssl.fastly.net/binaries/ubuntu/20.04/x86_64/ruby-2.6.6.tar.bz2
Checking requirements for ubuntu.
Installing requirements for ubuntu.
Updating system..
Installing required packages: g++, gcc, autoconf, automake, bison, libffi-dev, libgdbm-dev, libncurses5-dev, libsqlite3-dev, libtool, libyaml-dev, make, pkg-config, sqlite3, libgmp-dev, libreadline-dev......................|
Requirements installation successful.
^C
exit
sudo -i -u the-user
rvm install 2.6.6
I have a fairly new macbook pro and I'm simply trying to install homebrew according to the directions on their site:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
However, when I run this I get the following output:
The user \u cannot be found
There was an unknown error.
This script requires the user \u to be an Administrator.
My macbook only has 1 user, which is me, the Administrator. That's who I'm logged in as on the computer.
Another thing I've tried is running the command with sudo, in which case I get the following message:
Don't run this as root!
Another thing I've tried is downloading Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode: xcode-select --install as I saw this suggested on Homebrew's site and elsewhere online.
After creating a new user with "Admin" privileges apart from my root account, the homebrew install command above started to run but then quit with the following error:
/usr/local/homebrew/.git: Permission denied
Failed during: git init -q
At this point I'm stuck and not sure what to do.
I was able to install Homebrew using the following steps. Note I did this on a non-root admin user account. I had to create this user account separately and give it admin access just to do this. Once I logged out of my root account and logged into the admin non-root account, I typed the following commands into terminal:
xcode-select --install
cd /usr/local/Homebrew
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
git fetch --all
git checkout -B master origin/master
cd /usr/local
ln -s /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin
I found most of these steps here:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/5084#issuecomment-248834806
Hope this helps someone else.
Have you tried installing Xcode first?
xcode-select --install
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Then see if the installation was correct with "brew doctor"
Source: https://www.howtogeek.com/211541/homebrew-for-os-x-easily-installs-desktop-apps-and-terminal-utilities/
Uninstall and reinstall reinstall Homebrew.
Run sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local and then reinstall
I'm trying to put a google sign in for my ios app and to do that I need CocoaPods. But when installing it like there own website on terminal I get this:
$ sudo gem install cocoapods
[Password: (*Put in my admin password for my macbook*)
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions for the /usr/bin directory.
This is being done on a Macbook Air running High Sierra 10.13.2
(Don't know if you need that info but I've never done anything with cocoapods or ruby before)
I also tried following this link and followed the awnser and installed RVM, or at least I think I did. I just put this in:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Well I tried installing CocoaPods after that but still got the same thing.
You might try the following command
sudo gem install cocoapods -n /usr/local/bin
The problem is that gem install was trying to use /usr/bin for installing the binaries, which shouldn't be touched for the System Integrity Protection. Since:
A centerpiece is the protection of system-owned files and directories
against modifications by processes without a specific "entitlement",
even when executed by the root user or a user with root privileges
(sudo)
Sudo is without any power in this situation.
Hence the solution uses -n, from gem help install it says:
-n, --bindir DIR Directory where binary files are located
in this way you will be able to move the binaries in a more comfortable destination: /usr/local/bin which stands for programs that a normal user may run.
I am trying to download Hydra in Terminal with Homebrew on my imac but it gives me this error:
You must `brew link makedepend` before hydra can be installed
And when I run:
brew link makedepend
It says:
Error: Could not symlink .
/usr/local/opt is not writable.
And if i use sudo it says:
Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported.
As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all
build scripts full access to your system.
Can someone help me thank you!
Run brew update first, and then brew doctor. It will likely ask you to use chmod on /usr/local/. Follow its instructions.
I removed ALL content from /usr/local/bin folder (including 'brew'). Homebrew isn't working anymore and I seem to be stuck in a limbo. When I try to install it says:
It appears Homebrew is already installed. If your intent is to
reinstall you should do the following before running this installer
again:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
When I run the given uninstall command it says:
Failed to locate Homebrew!
Background
The problem arose when I attempted to remove node.js by following this guide:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11178106/1736012
To completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following:
go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
go to /usr/local/include and delete any node and node_modules directory
if you installed with brew install node, then run brew uninstall node in your terminal
check your Home directory for any local or lib or
include folders, and delete any node or node_modules from there
go to /usr/local/bin and delete any node executable
Especially 5 was bad! That's what led me to remove everything under /usr/local/bin. So brew doctor won't work (brew isn't recognized anymore). Brew worked fine before this.
What I tried
This does not work either as brew is missing:
rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install )"
I tried various scripts like this one for example: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/85481. And this: https://gist.github.com/SteveBenner/11254428. None of them is working (both assumes that brew command is there)...
What can I do to re install Homebrew so that it works as before??
This should bring back a working brew command:
cd /usr/local/Homebrew
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
git pull origin master
Next I would check the output of brew doctor and see if there are major problems. There is an official uninstalling guide on homebrew's github wiki in case you want to completely uninstall.
Try to move or remove the Homebrew file in the user/local file and then try the regular link from the homebrew homepage to install the brew!
By the way, I did not try moving but I am pretty sure it should work.
Note: While the operation you might have to use the sudo
I faced the same issue, the following link really worked for me
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10368
especially comment from MrBenFTW commented on Feb 2021