Comments on: Homebrew – Intro To The Mac OS X Package Installer

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:48:45 +0000

I found out that gist site has been restructured a little

The ruby installer script can now be installed using…

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSLk https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb)“

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:46:29 +0000

Looks handy, but unfortunately the gist url for the installer script is now a 404

By: JM

JM — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:54:25 +0000

What are the implications of changing all those permissions on system directories? This strikes me as an unwise decision, particularly changing the group id’s

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:49:59 +0000

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your reply,

Please let me know, how can you configure in your system in details…

Ramesh

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:38:19 +0000

Hello,

I’ve just started using Homebrew and I love it. The only issue I am having is that it doesnt seem to be installing the man pages for any packages I install. I there something I need to alter somewhere or a flag I need to set?

Thanks,
Kyle

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:26:35 +0000

Hi,

I have installed brew in my linux (slackware13.1 linux)

While run the command given below

brew create http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.33/libsoup-2.33.90.tar.gz

and typed the formula

require ‘formula’

class Libsoup Downloading http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.33/libsoup-2.33.90.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
Warning: Cannot verify package integrity
The formula did not provide a download checksum
For your reference the MD5 is: f905e685f4e2fa6b414522e06d8db3c8
/usr/bin/mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/homebrew-libsoup-2.33.90-XXXX: Invalid argument
Error: Couldn’t create build sandbox
root@slack64:/tmp/brew/homebrew#

I am getting above error. Please help me how to fix this error

Ramesh

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:22:09 +0000

Hi,

I have configured the brew in linux, How to make package for using brew ?

Ramesh

By: texnic

texnic — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:29:10 +0000

Thanks. This didn’t work, but the issue was eventually resolved by downloading the homebrew elsewhere: http://blog.boxcryptor.com/how-to-use-boxcryptor-with-encfs-on-mac-os-x#comment

By: Phil Whelan

Phil Whelan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:07:26 +0000

I’m on 10.6.7, so hard to debug your exact issue. The latest documentation on the homebrew Github site https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew#readme is

/usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)”

If that does not work, then please submit a report here https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues

Btw, they recommend reading this before filing a report http://allanmcrae.com/2011/05/how-to-file-a-bug-report/

Hope that helps.

By: Ulops

Ulops — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:22:00 +0000

Exactly the same issue. Also using 10.5.8

By: texnic

texnic — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:42:56 +0000

Upon doing the ruby command, I’m getting

curl: (60) SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details:
error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

Though you have -k in the keys already. Any idea of what I could try? I’ve Mac OS 10.5.8.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:55:59 +0000

Stumbled across your post and because of that I read about homebrew… Just wanted to say thanks a lot! I was struggling like hell to get postgis working… and it works flawlessly now

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By: Phil Whelan

Phil Whelan — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:01:57 +0000

Thanks Sukima. You are absolutely right. Force of habit. I’ve edited the text to remove “sudo” for the brew commands.

By: Sukima

Sukima — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:55:14 +0000

Out of curiosity why do you use sudo for all your commands. The docs specifically explain why that is a bad idea. A simple one time `sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local` fixes that issue. This makes life so much easier. sudo opens up a lot of opportunities to really blow things up. Your putting complete trust that there isn’t a bug or mistake in the hundreds of formula scripts. And entering in a password every time you use the brew command is a hassle.