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How to install bash completion in zsh using Homebrew Formula
In bash, my Homebrew Formula installs the completion:
bash_completion.install "completions.bash" => "dgtools.tz.bash"
However, in zsh it seems that you can only install ...
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What does command eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" actually do?
Homebrew requires us to add eval $(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv) to ~/.zprofile. What does this actually evaluate to and what does this accomplish?
I am a bit new to shell scripting. I know $var is ...
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Command output evaluation not working in Bash script [duplicate]
I am trying to automate adding Homebrew to my path in a shell script, but these two lines do not evaluate inside my shell script:
#!/bin/sh
eval "$(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)&...
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gawk inplace error
How to change a file in-place using awk? (as with "sed -i")
When I follow the solution above, I get the following error on mac. How to find why it does not work on mac?
awk -i inplace '/...
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Homebrew in Ubuntu getting uninstalled after reboot
I am installing properly Homebrew in my ubuntu 22.04 and everything is fine brew doctor, brew --version everything is running properly. But everytime I am rebooting my system, the homebrew is getting ...
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How to execute homebrew installed apps with sudo? [duplicate]
I use homebrew to manage apps in Linux, Ubuntu being more precise. On homebrew installation, I followed recommendations and put its app install location into PATH for my user session (into file ~/....
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Homebrew Installation Issue
Fairly new at Linux here and have a question about installing Homebrew. I'm using Centos7 and already updated all the required dependencies (cURL, etc.). When I run the Linux installation script ...
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ld: error: undefined symbol: X509_STORE_new
I build grpc static library, but I get error:
ld: error: undefined symbol: X509_STORE_new
I have installed openssl:
mindgood@minds-MacBook-Pro grpc % whereis openssl
openssl: /usr/bin/openssl /...
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getting WGET to save clean file extensions, without query parameter
I am using wget on mac to download hundreds of thousands of images...
however the saved files all have a '?' saved at the end of the file extension (like the start of a query parameter)
How can i get ...
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Brew no longer works - macOs 12.6
I work on macOs monterey 12.6 with a M1 pro chip.
I was working on a project with php (8.1), composer and symfony installed and everything was working fine.
I closed my terminal and since when I go ...
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After restarting terminal, Brew commands not working and getting some error in terminal
I have macOS Monterey(v12.3) and had installed brew with exact guidelines shown in youtube videos. But brew commands work only if I run in the same terminal session. When I restart the terminal and ...
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MacOS terminal issues
I tried installing hombrew for mac os and faced some issues while adding to path, now terminal welcomes me with this messages, how can I fix it?
.zprofile:export:4: not valid in this context: export ...
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Homebrew multiuser on Monterey M1
I am trying to setup a 2 user Homebrew configuration on my M1 Mac on Monterey. I have 2 accounts on the laptop: bob and work. bob will be the Homebrew owner, and work will access it via a sudo to bob.
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Error: Cask 'visual-studio-code' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists
I try to download visual studio code via brew, and on https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/visual-studio-code its clearly written that the install command is
brew install --cask visual-studio-code
but when ...
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problem with homebrew installation path on linux
So the problem looks like that :
I followed all the instructions from https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-on-Linux , to install oh my posh via brew.
The problem is that I think I putted a wrong path while ...
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Using jq in a bash script to get an element with a certain value pattern
I'm calling the homebrew api in a shell script with the goal of getting the App name for the item before trying to install it. Luckily the api provides this in an element called artifacts. Unluckily, ...
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Error while trying to source a .zshrc file
What am I doing wrong here?
% echo "export HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN=XXXX">> ~/.zshrc;
% source ~.zshrc;
zsh: no such user or named directory: .zshrc
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Installed a package using brew, but when I try to run its command, it's not identified
I am using homebrew on ubuntu to install x86_64-elf-gcc. After installing it, I tried running it, but Ubuntu won't recognize the installed package...
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Brew installation fails due to Ruby versioning?
I am trying to install Linux Brew on Garuda Linux (Arch Linux based distro) but the install script fails with the following error:
==> Pouring portable-ruby-2.6.8.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
Error: ...
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Homebrew unavailable on Ubuntu when connecting via ssh (PATH doesn't include brew location)
I am connecting with ssh from a Mac to a Ubuntu machine with Homebrew installed (as per these instructions). When using the Ubuntu machine directly, brew works fine. But with ssh, I get the the ...
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how to make brew output log in terminal
I am using this command to start nginx on macOS (M1 chip):
brew services nginx start
the output tell me the service start success, but when I using this commnad to check the services and check the ...
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Tmux changes to default preinstalled nano version instead of newly installed homebrew one
When i use nano in the terminal without enabling tmux, it shows the path for the brew version nano is an alias for /opt/homebrew/Cellar/nano
However when i use tmux, type nano shows the same path but ...
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cp setattrlist Permission denied on MacOS
I am a second "Administrator" user on a Mac OS. I am in the admin group, and am trying to use homebrew, which was installed by the first user.
I have made sure everything in /usr/local/* is ...
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GDB Installed From homebrew on macOS Big Sur Fails to Load Symbols From elf32-i386 Binary
for the past little bit I've been slowly working on developing a hobbyist kernel, and for all that time I've been using GDB with QEMU to investigate memory locations and registers and what not. ...
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Debian stuck on login screen loop after homebrew install
I installed homebrew today on Debian buster. After a reboot, it's not going past the initial login screen even with correct password. But I am able to log onto console.
I think I messed up the ./...
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zsh: run function after specific command and argument
Currently structuring my dotfiles and figured i would make a copy of all installed homebrew and cask packages. This is very nicely done via homebrew-bundle.
However, I want to add some automation to ...
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What do the avifenc min/max quality settings do?
I'm using avifenc by joedrago to create AVIF images (for use on the web). I installed it via Homebrew on macOS using:
brew install joedrago/repo/avifenc
There doesn't seem to be a single quality ...
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Configuring homebrew for multiple users on MacOs
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brew --prefix returns:
/usr/local
CONTEXT
A MacOs Mojave desktop is:
initially configured with brew
a new user is added
A new group, brew, is added per instructions and user 2 was added to ...
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How do I install an older version of boost-python3 on Mac OS
Currently,
brew install boost-python3
installs a new version of boost and the library boost_python38 (libboost_python38.dylib), however I need boost_python37 or older.
I managed to install an ...
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Python "SSLError("Can't connect to HTTPS URL because the SSL module is not available.")': /simple/docutils/"
PROBLEM
Whatever I try to install from terminal with pip (macOS 10.12) I get this error message
I may have installed and fully deleted homebrew before but I am not sure how to solve this
Installs ...
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Fedora: Command not found with sudo
I am aware of the --preserve-env or -E flag in sudo, however, it seems like this flag causes sudo to act weird in Fedora.
I installed ranger with LinuxBrew, Here's what I get when I type in which ...
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Symlink pointing at wrong file when executing
I'm having a strange issue with hugo binary installed using brew on Ubuntu 18.04. When I run which hugo I get /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/hugo and when I look at that directory with ls -la /home/...
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Problem Adding PATH to ~/.zshrc
I am having an issue adding a path variable on my zsh.
This is the warning that was produced:
Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your PATH but you have installed
formulae that put executables ...
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Homebrew throws error when running make to move binaries
I am trying to write a formula for homebrew to install a C++ tool I made. I have the following rule in my makefile to copy binaryFile file to /usr/local/bin:
install:
@install -m 0755 binaryFile ...
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Why does "alias python=/usr/local/bin/python3.7" keep getting appended to my .zshrc every time I open up a homebrew managed version of Anaconda?
I run a fairly stock .zshrc configuration. Stock meaning only a couple of aliases and a theme. But every time I open my .zshrc, I see several appended lines that all say this:
"alias python=/usr/...
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Homebrew replaced Python3, how to reverse?
While trying to install AWS SAM CLI on a linux box, I had to install Homebrew/Linuxbrew. The AWS package have a dependency to python 3, which I already have installed on my system.
In the middle of ...
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Where is the location of linuxbrew's log files?
In MacOS, homebrew output logs to ~/Library/Logs/Homebrew. What is the equivalent in Linux for linuxbrew?
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byobu configuration menu escape / exit always closes the tab
I've been using byobu for ~4 years at this point and I do not remember this behavior before. If I press F1 (this always happens by accident actually, with the exception of initial setup I never want ...
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Having a hard time understanding package-manager repositories? [duplicate]
I'm currently starting to play around in the Terminal (MacOS), and learning to get the most out of it. I knew Homebrew was a very populair alternative package-manager on MacOS, so I decided to look ...
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Why does LC_MESSSAGES need to be exported on macOS homebrew bash to take effect?
On macOS, with bash installed from homebrew, I noticed that setting LC_MESSAGES seems to have some effect on the current shell's locale settings, but messages doesn't actually change until LC_MESSAGES ...
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ZSH and GDBM support
I am trying to learn more about ZSH and the way that my shell is setup and operates. I am running OSX and have installed ZSH with HomeBrew so as not to use my standard system ZSH.
However, before ...
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"brew install -s" does not compile from source
I want to install vim via homebrew, from the compile, but even when I ran the command with -s flag, the compile does not occur.
brew install -s vim --with-luajit
Or
brew reinstall -s vim --with-...
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Prevent script from sudoing
I have a script that runs an utility every two days. This utility does some stuff on my system. It is a very known, widely used piece of open source software.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#...do stuff here
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Brew Formula: How can I define cask and external dependencies?
I’m writing a brew formula for my own tap, having XQuartz and external sources (not available on brew) as dependencies. How can I include them in my formula?
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OS X - Why is python not properly sourced in `which python`?... and is more broken in the system-level python?
TL;DR: Is this $PATH string backwards if I'm trying to source python 2.7 from the homebrew-installed version?
$ echo $PATH
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/Library/Frameworks/...
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There is no Cellar in /usr/local for brew
I have been trying to use brew to install tmux but every time I put in brew install tmux it would tell me:
Error: Could not create /usr/local/Cellar
Check you have permission to write to /usr/local
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How to install libzip 1.2 on Debian as well as OSx via homebrew? [closed]
I want to use http://php.net/manual/en/ziparchive.setencryptionname.php but this relies on libzip version 1.2 being available.
On Debian, a $ dpkg -s libzip-dev prints
Package: libzip-dev
Status: ...
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How Do I Unbuffer The Output Passed From an Interactive Command Into a Pipeline Ending With `tee`?
I'm troubleshooting an interactive command and would like to:
see output printed to my screen with its original coloration, unbuffered or line-buffered (instead of ...
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How can I set ENV from a path
I just installed android-sdk using Homebrew.
The path is /usr/local/Caskroom/android-sdk/3859397,26.0.1.
I know I can export ANDROID_HOME with that value.
How can I set it dynamically using the ...
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gsed: command not found on macOS with Homebrew
I am using oh my zsh. I am not able to use some commands which I could do on ubuntu for e.g.. \s in regular expressions. I installed home-brew and then brew install gnu-sed --default-names but still I ...
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