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Rob Zazueta
Rob Zazueta

Reputation: 71

Trouble Installing Mac Homebrew

I've tried the various forums and teh Google to no avail. I'm trying to install Mac Homebrew on OS X 10.6.8. When I try the install command from the Homebrew Homepage:

ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)

I get the following errors:

host-197-7-0-10:~ rzazueta$ 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: 403 while accessing https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew    /info/refs

fatal: HTTP request failed
Failed during: git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master -n

That 403 is rather odd. Any idea what could be happening here? I was able to successfully install using this method on another Mac, so I feel confident the issue is on my machine, but I don't even know where to begin to figure out what's causing this.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 18684

Answers (7)

Jesse Nobbe
Jesse Nobbe

Reputation: 408

Check their installation page (https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation) and look under alternate installs.

The pertinent line being:

cd /usr/local/bin    
mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew

then just

ln -s path/to/homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin/brew

I think the path listed on Link is dated.

Upvotes: 5

KelvinX
KelvinX

Reputation: 1

I have tried all the above answers but they din't work.Then I found maybe the link was broken. I use the following command and succeed:

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

Upvotes: 0

Amit Hooda
Amit Hooda

Reputation: 2144

Change your script to 

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

instead of ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)

Upvotes: 0

lenybernard
lenybernard

Reputation: 2448

Carefull, the install script has moved from raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go to raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install !

Upvotes: 0

Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards

Reputation: 31

I had the same problem on OS X 10.8.2. It turned out that I had an old version of git (1.6.5.2) installed in /usr/local. When I removed that and used the version provided with Mountain Lion (1.7.10.2), the normal install worked fine.

Upvotes: 3

mxcl
mxcl

Reputation: 26883

This was a temporary Github problem. It happens occasionally. Try again later.

Upvotes: 0

Emanuele Baglini
Emanuele Baglini

Reputation: 21

Just installed using:

ruby <(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)

and it work without problems. Maybe it was a temporary problem...

Upvotes: 2

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