Archive for the ‘Home brew / homebrew’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/13
[Wayback/Archive] macos – How can I update everything installed through Homebrew after OSX upgrade? – Ask Different
A
Use the command brew upgrade in the terminal to update all of the packages.
C
brew upgrade --cask not updated my excited packages like Flutter. using brew upgrade --g will be preferred as mentioned in Manpage : –g, –greedy: Also include outdated casks with auto_updates true or version :latest. –greedy-latest: Also include outdated casks including those with version :latest. –greedy-auto-updates: Also include outdated casks including those with auto_updates true.
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Casks are not upgraded because of their internal auto-update capabilities and the conflict in these two auto-update mechanisms. See more details on docs.brew.sh/…
So if you want to upgrade casks as well, then run this (but read the warnings below first):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/21
Fork of a repository that shows how to do this with normal Homebrew installs [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub has my notes to do a similar thing with Homebrew cask installs.
Fork of: [Wayback/Archive] Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub.
TODO: check notes to ensure they really work on a different system and were not a lucky shot.
Notes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04
In the summer of 2024, something interesting happened in the Homebrew world: [Wayback/Archive] Our audit of Homebrew | Trail of Bits Blog.
This is really cool, while not only it caused some fixes of by then unknown issues, but also improved the various processes that already made Homebrew such a great tool by focusing on these aspects:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/16
I wish that MacOS Homebrew would warn in advance of any caveates instead of after installing.
Only after brew install wireshark [Wayback] it is told that:
==> wireshark cask is installed, skipping link.
==> Caveats
This formula only installs the command-line utilities by default.
Install Wireshark.app with Homebrew Cask:
brew install --cask wireshark
If your list of available capture interfaces is empty
(default macOS behavior), install ChmodBPF:
brew install --cask wireshark-chmodbpf
Now what? Do I need to uninstall Wireshark first, or does the cask stuff just work when it is installed?
These two do not make me happy:
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/31
TL;DR
This fails:
brew update drawio
brew upgrade drawio
This works:
brew cask upgrade drawio
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/11
Remember the screenshot on the right from yesterdays post Kristian Köhntopp explaining theories?
In the end, I:
- saved that tweet
- in archive.is
- then took the screenshot image from there (see below)
- cut out the grey parts, then posted the middle part
I much more would have used the screenshot functionality of Google as described here by Terence Eden:
[WayBack] twitter – How to convert a tweet to image – Stack Overflow
Google has a secret screenshot API
For example, you can use it to get a screenshot of a tweet like this
https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v1/runPagespeed?screenshot=true&strategy=mobile&url=https%3a%2f%2ftwitter.com%2fedent%2fstatus%2f661570680253755392
At the bottom of that JSON response, you’ll see
"screenshot": {
"data": "_9j_4AAQSkZJRgAB.....=",
"height": 569,
"mime_type": "image/jpeg",
"width": 320
}
You will need to Base64 decode it using the URL and Filename safe alphabet.
That will give you a JPG screenshot of the Tweet.
I was hoping for an on-line way, so I followed [WayBack] Google’s Secret Screenshot API – Terence Eden’s Blog.
The blog post pointed me to a Python based script ([WayBack] Python-Twitter-Hacks/websiteScreenshot.py at master · edent/Python-Twitter-Hacks · GitHub) but had no online way.
So I tried out a few on-line things myself that failed:
Then I found out the script was just a proof of concept with hard coded URL and filename.
So I forked the repository, and fixed the script basing it on Python 3.
More on that next week.
Related:
- [WayBack] RFC 4648 – The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings: Base 64 Encoding with URL and Filename Safe Alphabet:
The Base 64 encoding with an URL and filename safe alphabet has been
used in [12].
...
An alternative alphabet has been suggested that would use "~" as the
63rd character. Since the "~" character has special meaning in some
file system environments, the encoding described in this section is
recommended instead.
...
This encoding may be referred to as "base64url". This encoding
should not be regarded as the same as the "base64" encoding and
should not be referred to as only "base64".
...
This encoding is technically identical to the previous one, except
for the 62:nd and 63:rd alphabet character, as indicated in Table 2.
...
Table 2: The "URL and Filename safe" Base 64 Alphabet
Value Encoding Value Encoding Value Encoding Value Encoding
0 A 17 R 34 i 51 z
1 B 18 S 35 j 52 0
2 C 19 T 36 k 53 1
3 D 20 U 37 l 54 2
4 E 21 V 38 m 55 3
5 F 22 W 39 n 56 4
6 G 23 X 40 o 57 5
7 H 24 Y 41 p 58 6
8 I 25 Z 42 q 59 7
9 J 26 a 43 r 60 8
10 K 27 b 44 s 61 9
11 L 28 c 45 t 62 - (minus)
12 M 29 d 46 u 63 _
13 N 30 e 47 v (underline)
14 O 31 f 48 w
15 P 32 g 49 x
16 Q 33 h 50 y (pad) =
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/05
From the update process:
==> Caveats
==> hub
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
zsh completions have been installed to:
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> python
Python has been installed as
/usr/local/bin/python3
Unversioned symlinks `python`, `python-config`, `pip` etc. pointing to
`python3`, `python3-config`, `pip3` etc., respectively, have been installed into
/usr/local/opt/python/libexec/bin
If you need Homebrew's Python 2.7 run
brew install python@2
You can install Python packages with
pip3 install
They will install into the site-package directory
/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages
See: https://docs.brew.sh/Homebrew-and-Python
==> youtube-dl
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
zsh completions have been installed to:
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> mpv
zsh completions have been installed to:
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
==> node
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/14
I’ve used these excellent posts to find out which youtube-dl version started to exhibit troublesome NPO downloads, then later find the actual failing commit:
Why the effort? I needed an as recent as possible youtube-dl working on as many sites as possible because of some work preparation.
The first link is very important because brew versions and alternatives have stopped working some 6 years ago, even though they turn up high on Google searches for brew install specific version. Hence the quote from the first link:
Installing software packages on Mac is very easy with homebrew. You typically get the latest version, however often in production you do not have the latest version of a software package. Another use case is when you upgrade to the latest and you find out there is bug which blocks you doing something. In this case you would like to downgrade to the previous version until the bug is fixed.In both cases you need to install a specific version of a software package with homebrew on your Mac, which tends to be not that trivial. There is a lot of discussion about this on stackoverflow but some of them are outdated based on brew versions which is not available anymore.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/23
I missed that this was merged to master a few months ago: [WayBack] macos – Upgrade all the casks installed via Homebrew Cask – Stack Overflow:
December 2017 Update
I thought it would never happen, but there is now finally an official upgrade mechanism for Homebrew Cask (see [WayBack] Issue 3396 for the implementation)! To use it, simply run this command:
brew cask upgrade
However this will not update casks that do not have versioning information (version :latest) or applications that have a built-in upgrade mechanism (auto_updates true). To reinstall these casks (and consequently upgrade them if upgrades are available), run the upgrade command with the --greedy flag like this:
brew cask upgrade --greedy
It means you do not need manual scripts any more. So you can do without this workaround: [WayBack] GitHub – buo/homebrew-cask-upgrade: A command line tool for upgrading every outdated app installed by Homebrew Cask.
More information at [WayBack] homebrew-cask/USAGE.md at master · caskroom/homebrew-cask · GitHub: Updating/Upgrading Casks
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
brew install --cask wireshark. If you use this, you may need to uninstall the non-cask version of wireshark prior to installing the cask.