Unistall error using home-brew -> error using brew prune

Question

I have Paste installed and want to uninstall it, currently running macOS High Sierra. I have tried using the $ brew uninstall Paste and it gets returned with Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/paste.

After that I used $ brew update of which everything is up-to-date.

So after that I used $ brew doctor which returned

 Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Broken symlinks were found. Remove them with `brew prune`:
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuPro-W3
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuPro-W6
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuProN-W3
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuProN-W6
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuStd-W8
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuStdN-W8
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMaruPro-W4
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMaruProN-W4
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMinPro-W3
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMinPro-W6
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMinProN-W3
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraMinProN-W6
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraginoSansGB-W3
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraginoSansGB-W6
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/YuGo-Bold
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/YuGo-Medium
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/YuMin-Demibold
  /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/YuMin-Medium

However, when I try and use $ brew prune I get returned with
Error: Permission denied @ unlink_internal - /usr/local/share/ghostscript/9.16/Resource/CIDFont/HiraKakuPro-W3

Can anyone help with this issue?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 18 '18 at 22:42

Simply run:

brew uninstall paste

You're getting the error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/pastewhenbrew uninstall Past because there are no brew formulae installed or in the official Homebrew repository named paste.

brew install paste
Error: No available formula with the name "paste"

I guess you've installed it using cask:

brew cask install paste

If you try to uninstall it using brew you'll get that error:

brew uninstall Paste
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/paste

To uninstall paste simply use brew cask instead:

brew cask uninstall paste

Unistall error using home-brew -> error using brew prune

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