Run commands below, in this order: brew update brew doctor brew upgrade node Now you have installed updated version of node, and it’s probably not linked. If it’s not, then just type: brew link node or brew link –overwrite node
You need to do the following: cd $(brew –prefix) rm Library/Formula/argp-standalone.rb rm Library/Formula/cocot.rb And then do the git fetch origin git reset –hard origin/master brew update Basically, to explain a bit more: cd $(brew –prefix) tells cd to change the directory to whatever brew –prefix will output. If you try executing brew –prefix command you … Read more
Using homebrew install nvm: brew update brew install nvm source $(brew –prefix nvm)/nvm.sh Add the last command to the .profile, .bashrc or .zshrc file to not run it again on every terminal start. So for example to add it to the .profile run: echo “source $(brew –prefix nvm)/nvm.sh” >> ~/.profile If you have trouble with … Read more
I had a similar issue on macOS Big Sur (11.0.1). In my case homebrew was saved in /opt/homebrew/, and not in /usr/local/…. So I added export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH to .zshrc file in my home directory, and the ZSH shell was able to find the brew command.
Per homebrew code on github, this shows all apps that can be updated: brew outdated brew help does not list the command, but it is documented in man brew.
You could try: brew update && brew install imagemagick
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
Running brew reinstall python@2 didn’t work for my existing Python 2.7 virtual environments. Inside them there were still ERROR:root:code for hash sha1 was not found errors. I encountered this problem after I ran brew upgrade openssl. And here’s the fix: $ ls /usr/local/Cellar/openssl …which shows 1.0.2t According to the existing version, run: $ brew switch … Read more
MacPorts is the way to go. Like @user475443 pointed, MacPorts has many many more packages. With brew you’ll find yourself trapped soon because the formula you need doesn’t exist. MacPorts is a native application: C + TCL. You don’t need Ruby at all. To install Ruby on Mac OS X you might need MacPorts, so … Read more
There is now finally an official upgrade mechanism for Homebrew Cask (see Issue 3396 for the implementation)! To use it, simply run this command: brew upgrade –cask However this will not update casks that do not have versioning information (version :latest) or applications that have a built-in upgrade mechanism (auto_updates true). To reinstall these casks … Read more