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pjc
pjc

Reputation: 127

brew on OSX 10.10.1 not working, ruby kernel_require error

I recently updated my Mac's copy of OSX from 10.6 to 10.10. Everything seems to be working fine except for brew.

my_mac:local my_user$ brew install wget
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- global (LoadError)
    from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
    from /usr/local/Library/brew.rb:15:in `<main>'

Since brew is based on Ruby I believe there's some problem with the system's install of Ruby, but I'm not sure how to approach it. I've tried to re-install the most recent version of Ruby and then Homebrew, but when Homebrew gets to

brew cleanup

It throws the same Ruby error.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1185

Answers (3)

vaichidrewar
vaichidrewar

Reputation: 9621

As others have mentioned it is because of corrupted permissions You can fix it using the following command:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local

It changes the permissions of /usr/local directory.

Upvotes: 0

Lei Wang
Lei Wang

Reputation: 27

it turned to be permission problem. Here is the command I used to fix the problem based on the answer from quaestor

$ cd /usr/local<br>
$ find . -mindepth 1 -user root -exec chown *xxx* {} \ ;

Where *xxx* is the user you want to change to. You may want to only do chown for directories related to brew.

Upvotes: 0

quaestor
quaestor

Reputation: 11

I've just had this problem too and the problem was corrupted permissions:

$ cd /usr/local
$ find . -mindepth 1 -user root

If any files or directories related to homebrew show up, you should use chown to fix the permissions.

Upvotes: 1

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