Homebrew Install Fails (Mountain Lion)

[niczak]

I am trying to install Homebrew on a machine that has never had it installed before. Here is what happens I try to install:

➜ ~ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go) ==> This script will install: /usr/local/bin/brew /usr/local/Library/Formula/... /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/... /usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press enter to continue ==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew... remote: Counting objects: 77014, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37110/37110), done. remote: Total 77014 (delta 52447), reused 61187 (delta 39093) Receiving objects: 100% (77014/77014), 10.99 MiB | 4.66 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (52447/52447), done. From https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

• branch master -> FETCH_HEAD error: Untracked working tree file 'bin' would be overwritten by merge. Failed during: git pull origin master

If I try the installer again after that I get: ➜ ~ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go) /usr/local/.git already exists!

I have done everything outlined here: https://gist.github.com/1860902 and still no luck.

[mxcl]

You already had some files in /usr/local. Delete /usr/local and try again.

[mxcl]

Though, I'm a little confused, unless there is already a bin/brew file there, I wouldn't expect this to fail. What files do you have in /usr/local/bin?

Update: I tested it, it'll work if files already exist.

[niczak]

@mxcl I'd rather not delete what is in that directory (I did delete the .git directory in /usr/local) so is there any other way to get this to work? Quite a few things install to /usr/local so I would assume others have gotten this to work when there are things already in that directory. I don't have a /usr/local/bin directory if that helps any.

[mxcl]

Yes, this does work. Recently I changed the installer to use git rather than to untar a tarball, so I assume this is related.

If you have no "bin", then I cannot explain why it errors out like so:

Untracked working tree file 'bin' would be overwritten by merge. Failed during: git pull origin master

mxcl = Stuck.

[niczak]

@mxcl Shoot, yeah it doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense to me either. I do have MySQL installed in /usr/local so I'd really like to avoid blowing that entire directory away. Perhaps I'll just hold off for the next version of the installer.

[mxcl]

I'll ponder on this some more and get back to you.

For now, if you download the script at https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go, you can try editing it mid-way so it picks the tar route rather than the git route. You can execute the script after with a plain ruby script-name command.

[mxcl]

In fact this command by itself is effectively the whole install:

cd /usr/local && /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -skSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1'

The rest is checks and changing the permissions on /usr/local so that the files can be extracted there.

[niczak]

@mxcl That (cd /usr/local && /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -skSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1') worked like a charm. I was able to run 'brew update' after that and am now in good shape. Thank you for the help!

[antbryan]

I get the same error on a fresh 10.8.1 w/ xcode installed.

after trying (cd /usr/local && /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -skSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1') then 'brew update' I get

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout: .gitignore Library/Aliases/0mq Library/Aliases/4store Library/Aliases/Secret Rabbit Code Library/Aliases/alut Library/Aliases/android Library/Aliases/apache-activemq Library/Aliases/apache-fop Library/Aliases/aws-as Library/Aliases/aws-mon Library/Aliases/beanstalkd Library/Aliases/bjam Library/Aliases/boehmgc Library/Aliases/boost-jam Library/Aliases/bzr Library/Aliases/cowthink Library/Aliases/cpanm Library/Aliases/ctags-exuberant Library/Aliases/db Library/Aliases/dbus Library/Aliases/dejagnu Library/Aliases/eyeD3 Library/Aliases/fastcgi Library/Aliases/firefly Library/Aliases/fluidsynth Library/Aliases/fsa Library/Aliases/gearmand Library/Aliases/gjstest Library/Aliases/gnu-scientific-library Library/Aliases/google-go Library/Aliases/gpg Library/Aliases/gpg2 Library/Aliases/gs Library/Aliases/gtk Library/Aliases/gtypist Library/Aliases/hashdeep Library/Aliases/hg Library/Aliases/htop Library/Aliases/hudson Library/Aliases/hugs Library/Aliases/ipsum Library/Aliases/jocr Library/Aliases/jslint Library/Aliases/lcms Library/Aliases/lcms2 Library/Aliases/leg Library/Aliases/libcryptopp Library/Aliases/libgd Library/Aliases/libgeoip Library/Aliases/libjpeg Library/Aliases/libjpg Library/Aliases/liblabjackusb Library/Aliases/libmad Library/Aliases/libmcrypt Library/Aliases/libnettle Library/Aliases/liboggz Library/Aliases/libqrencode Library/Aliases/libtag Library/Aliases/libtasn Library/Aliases/littlecms Library/Aliases/mc Library/Aliases/mediainfo Library/Aliases/mongo Library/Aliases/mp4box Library/Aliases/node.js Library/Aliases/nodejs Library/Aliases/nsis Library/Aliases/o-caml Library/Aliases/ocaml Library/Aliases/ocio Library/Aliases/offlineimap Library/Aliases/oiio Library/Aliases/omake Library/Aliases/ooc Library/Aliases/openmpi Library/Aliases/openocd Library/Aliases/p4 Library/Aliases/p4d Library/Aliases/pgrep Library/Aliases/pipeviewer Library/Aliases/pkgconfig Library/Aliases/pkill Library/Aliases/pocketsphinx Library/Aliases/postgres Library/Aliases/rbx Library/Aliases/ree Library/Aliases/saga Library/Aliases/shell-fm Library/Aliases/slang Library/Aliases/sphinxbase Library/Aliases/sqlite3 Library/Aliases/stax-sdk Library/Aliases/style Library/Aliases/svn Library/Aliases/tinyfugue Library/Aliases/twolame Library/Aliases/umfpack Library/Aliases/unix2dos Library/Aliases/urxvt Library/Aliases/usb-multiplex-daemon Library/Aliases/xmlsec1 Library/Aliases/zmq Library/Contributions/brew_bash_completion.sh Library/Contributions/brew_fish_completion.fish Library/Contributions/brew_zsh_completion.zsh Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-beer.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-dirty.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-graph Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-grep Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-leaves.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-linkapps.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-ls-taps.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-man Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-mirror-check.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-pull.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-readall.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-server Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-services.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-switch.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-test-bot.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-test-bot/brew-test-bot.commit.html.erb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-test-bot/brew-test-bot.css Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-test-bot/brew-test-bot.index.html.erb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-tests.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-unpack.rb Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-which.rb Library/Contributions/manpages/brew.1.md Library/Formula/a2ps.rb Library/Formula/a52dec.rb Library/Formula/aacgain.rb Library/Formula/aalib.rb Library/Formula/aamath.rb Library/Formula/aardvark_shell_utils.rb Library/Formula/abcde.rb Library/Formula/abcl.rb Library/Formula/abiword.rb Library/Formula/abnfgen.rb Library/Formula/abook.rb Library/Formula/abyss.rb Library/Formula/ace.rb

Aborting Error: Failure while executing: git checkout -q master

[mxcl]

@antbryan delete those files and try again.

[antbryan]

thanks! I tried that & the error repeated.

I believe downloading the command line tools within xcode fixed it. I thought it was command line tools OR xcode, not both.

either way, it works now on 10.8.1. awesome tool!

[LandonSchropp]

I'm trying to install Homebrew on a fresh copy of OS X 10.8.0. I've downloaded Xcode and the Xcode command line tools. Here's my output:

$ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/Formula/...
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press enter to continue
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
remote: Counting objects: 78871, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (37709/37709), done.
remote: Total 78871 (delta 53885), reused 62869 (delta 40345)
Receiving objects: 100% (78871/78871), 11.15 MiB | 1.48 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (53885/53885), done.
From https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
error: Untracked working tree file '.gitignore' would be overwritten by merge.
Failed during: git pull origin master

[mxcl]

@LandonSchropp do you already have a /usr/local/.gitignore file? If so, delete it.

[mxcl]

I have updated the installer so that this issue should no longer occur.

[danielwestendorf]

This is failing for me. OSX 10.8.1, Xcode and command line tools installed. I had homebrew installed when I was running 10.7 prior to upgrading.

$ rm bin/ .gitignore .git/
rm: bin/: is a directory
rm: .git/: No such file or directory
$ rm -rf bin/ .gitignore .git/
$ pwd
/usr/local
$ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press enter to continue
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
error: The requested URL returned error: 400 while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n

After removing the directories again and using the above mentioned cd /usr/local && /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -skSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1' it installs, and I have access to the brew command. However, when I try brew update

$ brew update Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/.git/ error: The requested URL returned error: 400 while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git/info/refs fatal: HTTP request failed Error: Failure while executing: git fetch origin

[Sharpie]

@danielwestendorf

Looks like a transient network issue. The GitHub status site shows service disruptions have occurred yesterday and today. Just try brew update again.

[danielwestendorf]

I was having the problem the night previous, which is why I posted.

I figured that something was wacky with my 10.8 install, so I re-installed OSX 10.8 from scratch. The install still fails.

$ ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/Library/...
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1

Press enter to continue
==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
error: Could not resolve host: (nil); nodename nor servname provided, or not known while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/info/refs
fatal: HTTP request failed
Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n

When I navigate to https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/info/refs in a web browser, I get a 404. Obviously I can navigate to https://github.com without issue.

$ curl -I https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/info/refs
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:59:03 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 404 Not Found
Cache-Control: no-cache
Set-Cookie: _gh_sess=BAh7BzoQX2NzcmZfdG9rZW4iMUl3eHpML1lWSzVhSlZ4MEpmZTV5aWdkWWJheXBQRzA4WG9PekFoRUNDSWc9Og9zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiVmZWIyZDQyZTVjZDZmMGMxNmFlYjQwY2QyYzk3NmUzOA%3D%3D--701ba3e1dc1110cfac2ff33aed3ce001ee3eec9a; path=/; expires=Sat, 01-Jan-2022 00:00:00 GMT; secure; HttpOnly
Content-Length: 21851

$ curl -I https://github.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:59:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Status: 200 OK
X-Frame-Options: deny
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, must-revalidate
ETag: "e6c4775615c2b4234e1a433f2844ce0d"
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=2592000
X-Runtime: 15
Set-Cookie: _gh_sess=BAh7BzoQX2NzcmZfdG9rZW4iMXR0K2hTSlRWcGtQakJZMnN2SllMR2Y3bytwWjE4cXZ5Rk1hOTZhL3FqaDQ9Og9zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiUwMGNkMjQ5YzkxY2Q2OTJkN2NmZGI3YTUxZTNmYTFkNA%3D%3D--1d95c36ccd9388ee79c7a478a6ead5ad517fb33e; path=/; expires=Sat, 01-Jan-2022 00:00:00 GMT; secure; HttpOnly
Content-Length: 22836

Installing homebrew with cd /usr/local && /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -skSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1' works, but when I try to update homebrew I get

$ brew update
error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
Error: Failure while executing: git checkout -q master

I thought this was a problem isolated to my laptop, which is why I re-installed OSX. I have another computer on the same network with an existing installation of homebrew that can update without issue. I think this is a problem with the install script. Any more info I can provide to help narrow this down?

[danielwestendorf]

I resolved my problems by replacing all instances of https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew with git://github.com/mxcl/homebrew.git in the install script. After doing so, it worked like a charm!

[wenyhooo]

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

[wenyhooo]

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"