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Reputation: 63022

Homebrew cask option not recognized?

I am following an online resource for installing two Mac utilities

http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-make-that-caps-lock-key-useful/

Here is the pertinent section:

Install both Karabiner and Seil. (Here again, if you use Homebrew Cask, you can do this with

$ brew cask install karabiner and

$ brew cask install seil

But the cask option is not recognized?

06:51:35/shared $brew cask install seil
Error: Unknown command: cask

Then, just for laughs I tried the command without the cask:

06:55:01/shared $brew install seil
Error: No available formula for seil
Searching formulae...
Searching taps...
Caskroom/cask/seil

It is not clear what the last line of output even means: nothing seems to have happened on the system.

I am on Yosemite.

Upvotes: 314

Views: 240151

Answers (18)

Shehan Jayalath
Shehan Jayalath

Reputation: 696

!!!!

brew cask is no longer a brew command. Use brew <command> --cask instead.

Example Syntax:-

Use:

brew install --cask <package_name>

Instead of:

brew cask install <package_name>

Upvotes: 0

Sahana M
Sahana M

Reputation: 611

As of 2021 use this command instead:

brew install --cask your-package

Upvotes: 53

Shankhar
Shankhar

Reputation: 1

I had the same issue before. Had my head scratching and finally figured out and use the commands like:

brew commands --cask

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Gupta
Gupta

Reputation: 10358

I would recommend following the below steps.

Step 1: Run brew install --help

Might show something like this.

Usage: brew install [options] formula|cask [...]

Install a formula or cask. Additional options specific to a formula may be
appended to the command.

Step 2: follow the hint ot help create the command and execute.

brew install cask chromedriver

Upvotes: 1

Jasmin Sojitra
Jasmin Sojitra

Reputation: 1301

Instead of this

brew cask install yourprogram

I have run:

brew install --cask yourprogram

Upvotes: 1

DolDurma
DolDurma

Reputation: 17279

@JeremyJohn answer is out to date, for installing Android sdk you should use this command:

brew install --cask android-sdk

Upvotes: 6

Simba
Simba

Reputation: 27568

Since Homebrew 2.6.0 released in 2020.12.01, brew cask has been deprecated and later dropped.

Homebrew not only manages TUI packages (formulae from the homebrew-core repo), it's also capable of managing GUI packages (casks from homebrew-cask repo). In the old days, brew commands like brew list, brew outdated take effect only on formula. Cask operations are separated into brew cask.

Homebrew has prioritized support for casks since 2.6.0. All the brew commands take effect on both formulae and casks. You must specify --formula or --cask explicitly to indicate them separately.

# Some examples
brew list # both formula and cask
brew list --formula
brew list --cask

brew outdated # both formula and cask
brew outdated --formula
brew outdated --cask

Upvotes: 4

praveen kumar bommali
praveen kumar bommali

Reputation: 145

With macOS Big Sur , running brew install ... will works

Upvotes: 5

Qiyu Zhang
Qiyu Zhang

Reputation: 185

I don't why the highest voted answer doesn't work for me. But you can do something like brew install homebrew/cask/appName

Upvotes: 4

Jeremiah Voris
Jeremiah Voris

Reputation: 71

None of these answers—despite some of them being correct at the moment—are showing their work and so may become no longer correct if this changes again.

I ran into this issue, stumbled on this page, and it was enough to get me curious about the change in command line and where that might be documented. Turns out you can go right here:

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/

and any of those you click on will show you the current command to use. So, for instance, the iterm2 page:

https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/iterm2

right at the top it's got the correct command to use so if they ever change it, you'll see what the new syntax is.

Upvotes: 7

hermit
hermit

Reputation: 1107

For me,

brew install <program_name> has worked fine till now.

For example, I was trying to install Oracle Virtual Box and the formula for it was listed as

$ brew cask install virtualbox.

But, $ brew install virtualbox worked just fine. I found that it was installing the application as cask as shown in the screenshot.enter image description here

I think homebrew automatically takes care of the cask dependency.

Upvotes: 2

Roland
Roland

Reputation: 878

I had the same issue. Now you should use:

brew install --cask <package>

instead of:

brew cask install <package>

Upvotes: 24

portella
portella

Reputation: 853

UPD: since the command brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask gives you the following error Error: caskroom/cask was moved. Tap homebrew/cask instead. please run brew install homebrew/cask

To use brew cask you should have it installed, this is a extension of brew, is not native.

To install it you need to run brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask from your command line

Homebrew Cask Github

Upvotes: 30

Jeremy John
Jeremy John

Reputation: 13821

As of 2021, the answer to this question for me was that instead of

brew cask install myprogram

I should run:

brew install --cask myprogram

Upvotes: 1305

RNK
RNK

Reputation: 5792

Install it with this command:

brew install brew-cask-completion

Upvotes: 4

Xinyu
Xinyu

Reputation: 87

brew tap caskroom/cask

brew install brew-cask

Now, you are ready to brew cask.

Upvotes: 6

drewish
drewish

Reputation: 9368

One other thing to check is that it may be installed but not linked:

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
Warning: caskroom/cask/brew-cask-0.59.0 already installed, it's just not linked

This is easily fixed by running:

$ brew link brew-cask

Upvotes: 0

Steve Tauber
Steve Tauber

Reputation: 10159

You can also just brew install Caskroom/cask/seil. It will automatically tap the correct cask for you :)

Upvotes: 10

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