homebrew

Unfortunately the yellow color means status unknown. Wonder why it says started though. I just found out because the status for apache 2.2 on OS X 10.11.6 is yellow as well. Don’t know if it’s actually working properly. Here’s what the homebrew-services ServicesCli code says # For backwards-compatability showing unknown state as started in yellow … Read more

Error: Setting DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH can break dynamic linking. You should probably unset it. Error: Some keg-only formula are linked into the Cellar. Linking a keg-only formula, such as gettext, into the cellar with brew link f will cause other formulae to detect them during the ./configure step. This may cause problems when compiling those other formulae. … Read more

This fixed it for me cd `brew –prefix`/Homebrew git fetch origin git reset –hard origin/master brew update worked fine after that

Nope. Homebrew intentionally lets the web sites serve as documentation of the packages, instead of maintaining a separate copy of it. You can do a brew home <formula> to fire up a browser from the command line, or brew edit <formula> to examine the formula’s installation instructions themselves in an editor.

Usually, you can check if multiple versions are available and you can specify the version with @. e.g. brew install package@2.8 $ brew info memcached memcached: stable 1.4.24 High performance, distributed memory object caching system https://memcached.org/ Conflicts with: mysql-cluster (because both install `bin/memcached`) Not installed From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/memcached.rb … If is not available the version you … Read more

Homebrew is installing wxmac in bottle form (a pre-compiled binary of wxmac). To build from source, add the –build-from-source flag when calling brew install: $ brew install –build-from-source wxmac