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I am trying to install octave through brew on mac (10.10.5 Yosemite). The command used is brew install octave . While installing, the process tries to install qt (version 4.8.7) which is essentially failing with the below error

Error : 'File already exists. /usr/local/Cellar/qt/4.8.7'.

When I check the file at this particular location, I don`t see any such directory, though the directory does appear and is created during the installation (probably getting removed later when the task fails). Could someone please point out what I need to do exactly? Is Qt really required for Octave installation? If not then any way to skip it?

IKavanagh
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  • Did you tried to ask there? - https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/support.html – Dmitry Sazonov Sep 02 '15 at 09:00
  • Thanks for suggestion. No I havent but would try now. – Abhi Sep 02 '15 at 14:09
  • Its resolved now :). I followed the steps from here https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/29989 comment by mysterycommand to restore my OS X essentials back to its original and then run brew command and it worked fine, – Abhi Sep 02 '15 at 15:05

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