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Erna Piantari
Erna Piantari

Reputation: 617

How to install Homebrew Portable Ruby when your system version is too old

I'm trying to install Homebrew on macOS. Once the installation finished, when I typed help I got:

Already downloaded: /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
Error: Checksum mismatch.
Expected: ab81211a2052ccaa6d050741c433b728d0641523d8742eef23a5b450811e5104
  Actual: f80fd4cc877a64b0ac1c105fdc212ca6be08bb034118900f2c2f58edcfe0dafd
 Archive: /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above.
Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby (and your system version is too old)!

Upvotes: 15

Views: 43718

Answers (9)

Amin Memariani
Amin Memariani

Reputation: 912

Here is how I fixed it:

brew cleanup then brew upgrade

Upvotes: 0

garmoncheg
garmoncheg

Reputation: 906

my problem was:

    Already downloaded: ../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.8_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
    ==> Pouring portable-ruby-2.6.8_1.el_capitan.bottle.tar.gz
    Error: Failed to install ruby 2.6.8_1!
    Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby (and your system version is too old)!

Fixed with opening the system app for terminal and installing Rosetta into the prompt. This happened after system update MacOS to 11.6.7

After resolving this brew did brew upgrade finish well. Hope this helps someone.

Upvotes: 2

Onns
Onns

Reputation: 363

I had the same question, and the solution is simple: remove the portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz you downloaded before.

rm /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portable-ruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz

Upvotes: 24

Travis M.
Travis M.

Reputation: 11257

"Homebrew install fails with Error: Failed to install Homebrew Portable Ruby" helped me tremendously.

It would fail to install, because our company firewall was blocking certain downloads, like bottle, during the Homebrew update/install, but it was difficult to determine this because I would get the error above.

After removing the file, try

brew upgrade
brew update

on your personal Wifi or your phone's hotspot.

Upvotes: 5

Erna Piantari
Erna Piantari

Reputation: 617

I fixed it.

First, I deleted the brew file that stores in the Library folder when using macOS.

The failure before was due to the connection. When I make sure the connection worked, it worked.

Upvotes: 1

Stephen
Stephen

Reputation: 783

To retry an incomplete download, remove the file above, then run:

rm /.../Library/Caches/Homebrew/portableruby-2.6.3.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz

and try again

Upvotes: 2

todd_dsm
todd_dsm

Reputation: 1076

I've been automating this for years. There is a new something(?) in play during the Homebrew install.

I had the same error as above. I filed an issue report and got a response that fixed my problem:

CI=1 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

I'm not sure what prefixing with CI=1 does but all my automation issues went away.

Upvotes: 0

Swarnaditya Maity
Swarnaditya Maity

Reputation: 1

Remove the Homebrew Portable Ruby tar.gz from your Mac using:

rm <the path.tar.gz>
rm -rf <the path.tar.gz>

Upvotes: 0

Uthman
Uthman

Reputation: 9807

Try running brew update-reset in your terminal and then run brew upgrade in the same terminal.

Upvotes: 6

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