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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.

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start brew cask apps from terminal

I installed signal using brew cask (brew cask install signal) I would like to be able to start the GUI app from terminal by typing signal(e.g.: to run the GUI of emacs [installed using brew cask] I can type emacs) Maybe there is a way to edit the…
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zsh compinit: insecure directories error message on Mac, after installing Homebrew

After installing Homebrew and Homebrew-Cask on my Mac (as administrator with user-id 'admin', running MacOS 10.12.6), I get the error message zsh compinit: insecure directories, run compaudit for list. Ignore insecure directories and continue [y]…
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Syntax for a Homebrew formula depending on a cask

I'm writing a homebrew formula for a project (https://www.cryfs.org). Since it is a file system, it depends on osxfuse, which is unfortunately only available as a cask. That is, the formula should have the cask as a dependency. I tried the…
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Is the homebrew chromium M1 optimised

Is the brew install --cask chromium install of homebrew chromium package optimised for M1 silicon or does it run under rosetta. The package page doesn't offer much info on this : https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/chromium
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Update Homebrew casks versions

I know, that Homebrew doesn't upgrade casks with auto-update (without force). So eventually, software versions, actually installed, and tracked by Homebrew, become different. For example: $ brew cask outdated --greedy firefox (79.0) !=…
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List up my apps installable with brew-cask

I want to know which of my apps are available to install with brew cask command. How can I do it? Specification What I want to do is to extract apps that are also available on brew-cask from all apps in /Applications and list up their…
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“Apple cannot check it for malicious software” in every Installation

I'm always getting the error message “Apple cannot check it for malicious software” when I run a software after installing using brew install or brew cask install, so my question is, is there a solution to make my Mac trust installations of…
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brew cask install safari-technology-preview not working on a computer, but works on another

I just tried to install Safari Technology Preview via "brew cask install" on two different MacBooks. On the first one it gets installed with no problems. On the other one I get "Error: Cask 'safari-technology-preview' is unavailable: No Cask with…
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Anaconda installed by HomeBrew "Path not writable or missing."

After install anaconda by "brew cask install anaconda", commands always warn like this WARNING conda.core.envs_manager:register_env(52): Unable to register environment. Path not writable or missing. environment location:…
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Brew List and Install Specific Versions of Formula

I would like to install 2.6.X but cannot find documentation on how to specify a formula version. Brew is only installing the latest version of the formula. I'm using the following versions of brew Homebrew 1.8.6 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git…
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Unistall error using home-brew -> error using brew prune

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…
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Homebrew Export Settings

Looking for a way to export my homebrew and homebrew cask installations (everything from 'brew list' and 'brew cask list') I'd like to be able to export them to a file that I can then put on any new machine, and run some sort of install that will…
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Homebrew no available formula or cask : fatal: Needed a single revision

notice : sorry if my english is bad (I'm french) Hey, I'm on Mac OS and i have a problem with Homebrew. I have to install somethings with this command: brew install pkg-config cairo pango libpng jpeg giflib librsvg But when i do this, i have that…
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How to find out if a homebrew package is optimised for apple M1

How to find out if a brew or cask package is optimised for apple M1. There doesn't seem to be any info on the respective package pages. Any links of a regularly updated list of native packages also would be very helpful
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Home Brew install package getting could not resolve HEAD to a revision

I just installed the latest homebrew with version Homebrew 2.7.3. I have git pre-install on my Mac OS, and I was trying to install brew install git-crypt & brew install git-gui and getting an error on fatal: Could not resolve HEAD to a revision. It…
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