Homebrew install issus (resolved)
I’ve been using Homebrew for a while now, and have enjoyed it’s simplicity and similarities to MacPorts.
Recently, after a bad OSX update (10.7.3), I had to reinstall OSX Lion from target mode, and then update via the combo-update above. Well, somewhere along the way something got overwritten, and I had to reinstall some apps and rejigger some settings. One of which, was ctags.
No problem, I dropped into iTerm and brewed away: “brew install ctags”. I was greeted with many errors. So I ran “brew doctor” and found out that I needed to reinstall Xcode to get gcc, etc. After that was done, I was still having install problems. I checked out Homebrew’s common issues FAQ. I got to the point where I was trying to upgrade Homebrew, “brew update” but it was telling me that I had git files checked out and modified, so I could not do an update.
The files in question were in “/usr/local/Library/Formula”, so I hopped back into iTerm, cd’d to that directory, and ran “git checkout -f” to clear all changes, and then “brew update” completed just fine. Ran “brew doctor” again, and it was complaining about “/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework” so I moved it into my home directory for now.
Finally, “brew install ctags” worked without issue.
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