homebrew

For recent versions of Homebrew, Jethro’ instructions below may not work work, because we will get an error like: Invalid usage: Non-checksummed download of <FORMULA_NAME> formula file from an arbitrary URL is unsupported. I found a workaround: Go to the Homebrew Cask search page: https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/ Type and find the application you are looking for Click … Read more

brew pin someformula. There is also a lua51 formula now.

Yeah. When you install a new version of a package, it keeps the old one. The symlinks in /usr/local/bin or wherever point to the latest version, but you can still call the binaries (or link to the libraries) in the older version. brew list to see what’s installed. You can look in package directories to … Read more

Use untap brew untap sethdeckard/proj

Homebrew-Cask is an extension to Homebrew to install GUI applications such as Google Chrome or Atom. It started independently but its maintainers now work closely with Homebrew’s core team. Homebrew calls its package definition files “formulae” (British plural for “formula”). Homebrew-Cask calls them “casks”. A cask, just like a formula, is a file written in a Ruby-based … Read more

I dug a little after trying to deal with the git repo, but the simplest thing that fixed it for me was untapping and then retapping the casks repo brew untap homebrew/cask brew tap homebrew/cask that put everything back in order. I haven’t RTFM’d lately, but I’m guessing this has something to do with how … Read more

You can run brew outdated to see a list of outdated packages that will be upgraded when running brew upgrade.

It’s asking you to unshallow both homebrew-core and homebrew-cask with: git -C “/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core” fetch –unshallow git -C “/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask” fetch –unshallow