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GilbertLee
GilbertLee

Reputation: 696

Homebrew No Such Keg

When I was trying to fix a problem with

brew uninstall gcc

I got the error 

No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/gcc

But actually I have gcc installed as

which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc

It seems like brew is pointing somewhere empty. i.e.I also have python installed under /usr/bin/ but brew info python showed Not installed.

How can I fix this to link all these tools to brew? Thanks

Upvotes: 7

Views: 35269

Answers (1)

cade
cade

Reputation: 571

brew info python and brew uninstall gcc look in your Cellar for installed packages. You don't have these installed in your Cellar, but have them installed on your system.

The Cellar is found at /usr/local/Cellar/. Each directory there is a separate keg.

You can do ls -al /usr/bin/gcc to see where it is getting the binary from - from what you've posted here it isn't from brew.

To see which packages are installed in your Cellar (and to confirm that they're not there), do brew list.

To understand more about brew and its terminology, see the Homebrew Formula Cookbook

Upvotes: 3

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