Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [homebrew-cask]

A friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries.

Homebrew Cask is a -based CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries.

176 questions
20
votes
6 answers

Homebrew updates and app self updates

How does homebrew/cask's updates work if the app auto updates itself. Example: Chrome or Firefox These two apps auto update themselves. But what happens when you run a brew update? Does it detect that it is already updated or does it check an…
PrivatMamtora
  • 2,072
  • 2
  • 19
  • 29
19
votes
2 answers

Homebrew: Cask 'java' definition is invalid

I started getting the following error when updating my casks recently: Error: Cask 'java' definition is invalid: Token '{:v1=>"java"}' in header line does not match the file name. I'm on MacOS 10.14.4, and my Homebrew version: → brew…
DaniG2k
  • 4,772
  • 36
  • 77
19
votes
4 answers

Homebrew multi user setup

I was trying to fix my Homebrew installation for multiple users and found a guide on strug.de, which aims to solve exactly this issue. I created a brew user group, added both of my users in that group and ran this to adjust the permissions: sudo…
frdmn
  • 359
  • 1
  • 2
  • 11
17
votes
2 answers

`conda` gives "No such file or Directory" although I added PATH in my .bash_profile

My Jupyter notebook and Conda was breaking down so I decided to remove everything and install it again. I installed anaconda using brew cask install anaconda Afterward, I added export PATH="/usr/local/anaconda3/bin:$PATH" in my…
Leonard
  • 2,978
  • 6
  • 21
  • 42
17
votes
1 answer

Changing homebrew-cask installation directories

I recently installed homebrew-cask and one of the things that I see is that it installs applications by default into the following directories: Versioned package downloads => /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/ Example :…
rchawdry
  • 1,256
  • 1
  • 10
  • 14
14
votes
2 answers

How to install Firefox Developer edition via Homebrew?

This is how to install Firefox via Homebrew: brew install --cask firefox But how to install the 'Firefox Developer edition'? Everything I tried fails with 'Error: Cask '...' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.' brew install --cask…
hardfork
  • 2,470
  • 1
  • 23
  • 43
13
votes
2 answers

Selenium WebDriver can't find Firefox when installed with Homebrew cask

Homebrew cask does some app linking magic on Mac OS X. Apparently it's not good enough because Selenium WebDriver looking for the Firefox executable can't find it. The following is an error message from an RSpec test run with Capybara driving…
Sim
  • 13,147
  • 9
  • 66
  • 95
12
votes
2 answers

How can I remove a cask without uninstalling the application?

I recently installed an app with homebrew-cask, but I want to handle its updates by myself and not via brew cask upgrade. Is there a command or option to remove a cask from the local list, without uninstalling it? If I use brew cask remove or brew…
itg-dave
  • 174
  • 3
  • 10
11
votes
2 answers

Why brew installation needs sudo access?

Why brew installation needs sudo access? Is it even safe to install brew as sudo? /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" ==> Checking for `sudo` access (which may request your…
Exploring
  • 2,493
  • 11
  • 56
  • 97
11
votes
4 answers

How to install cask for homebrew on mac

I have set up git and homebrew, ran brew reset-update, brew update and brew doctor none of these give me errors but when I try to install glew using: brew install glew it gives me many errors: fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly30.11 MiB |…
Win Barua
  • 131
  • 1
  • 1
  • 5
11
votes
7 answers

Git RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining

Any git clone of a repo above a certain size fails halfway through, I can use ssh method however for this case http is required as it is a secondary action as part of brew install. $ brew cask install homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8 ==>…
Murchie85
  • 815
  • 2
  • 12
  • 27
10
votes
2 answers

How do I uninstall a Homebrew cask manually?

I have a Homebrew cask installed which, when I attempt to uninstall it gives me an error: $ brew cask uninstall julia Error: Cask 'julia' definition is invalid: invalid 'depends_on macos' value: ":lion" This leaves me unable to use brew to remove…
orome
  • 45,163
  • 57
  • 202
  • 418
8
votes
2 answers

URLResourceKey.quarantinePropertiesKey is only available on OS X 10.10 or newer when installing chromedriver

I am downloading chromedriver through a brew cask install (see related issue ) and when I try to download it I get the following error (pasted full output from command entry): (env) MacBook:project_dir owner$ brew cask install chromedriver Updating…
Q.H.
  • 1,406
  • 2
  • 17
  • 33
8
votes
5 answers

How to upgrade to latest version of java JDK using homebrew cask?

I have been following these instructions to install the latest java jdk: www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/04/27/installing-java-8-jdk-os-x-using-homebrew/ brew cask install java This works great, but when a new version comes out, how do I make sure…
Rolando
  • 58,640
  • 98
  • 266
  • 407
7
votes
0 answers

brew upgrade node failing with error Error: node not installed , even when I do have old version of node installed

Mac OS 10.13.6 with homebrew installed, today had to upgrade it because of new homebrew policy Can't update or upgrade Homebrew after doing this, tried upgrading node to latest version and got below error Warning: You are using macOS 10.13. We (and…
vikramvi
  • 3,312
  • 10
  • 45
  • 68
1
2
3
…
11 12