Pouring hangs on chrome os about brew HOT 13 CLOSED

There was a problem with either lacking file installation or file in a wrong location. What does which file say on your system?

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Come to think of it, I see it has been partly fixed by bd49ee2 . If you haven't been running brew update for a while this may be a good time.

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DoomHammer, I cannot get brew to install so I can run brew update. I am following this guide: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/linuxbrew/wiki/Chromebook-Install-Instructions
which file gives me no file in $PATH

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@abkahrs if you cannot run brew update, you can do git pull from inside your Homebrew directory to update it.

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@abkahrs Please install file.

sudo apt-get install file
sudo yum install file

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@sjackman I am running this on chromeOS on a chromebook. I have no package manager.

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Ah, yes. Sorry. Piotr (@DoomHammer) is the Chrome expert here.
See brewstrap: https://github.com/DoomHammer/brewstrap/

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Am I? :)

I suggest trying DoomHammer/brewstrap#7 for bootstrapping Linuxbrew on Chromebook. Some installer script might be in order, come to think of it.

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pouring hanging means you need the 'file' command which chromeos does not have by default. If you can get brew working enough to install stuff from source, then you can brew install homebrew-dupes/file-formula

When I've done this in the past, I had to avoid bottles (e.g. with brew install --build-from-source till I got the file-formula package built, which then makes bottles work.

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-s is a handy shortcut for --build-from-source

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@minektur could you expand on what you mean? I am not sure what steps I need or how far I need to get brew working since I haven't really worked with brew before.

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@abkahrs there is a current dependency for installing bottles - the 'file' command must exist. You'll find that the 'file' command doesn't exist on chromeos. They have really stripped things down and dont include it. The dependency is not obvious, and 'brew install <some package you'd get from bottle>" it will just hang forever.

Because linuxbrew is a fork of homebrew which is built to install stuff on Mac OSX, such dependencies are subtle some times. And also because of this there isn't a normal brew recipie for the file command in the normal brew repository because it would be installing a file that is a duplicate of an existing utility/command that already exists on macosx. So there is a seperate set of recipies that will install "dupes".

On linux, and in this case for you on chromeos, it isn't a dupe at all, and once you install it somehow, then that brokenness with bottle-installs will go away. So you have to build from source

You should just do this:

brew install -s homebrew/dupes/file-formula

and then you shouldn't have that bug any more. (though linuxbrew is still a work-in-progress on chromeos...)

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Thank you all. I believe I have resolved the issue with the file install from source though that sgould be added to the chrome os install instructions

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