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brew
A package manager for macOS and Linux used to install and upgrade software.
- Stormkit local setup: activate mise in your shell and install vips plus pkg-config
A practical guide for Stormkit. Setting up Stormkit locally and something is off? Two common gotchas from a contributor's report.
- v10.2.4 is missing release assets
Fastly CLI v10.2.4's release assets 404'd on brew install because two release builds were kicked off by accident and the visible one was incomplete. (Fastly Compute; via gh:fastly/cli#986)
- ImportError: urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+
Teaches how to importError: urllib3 v2.0 only supports OpenSSL 1.1.1+. Based on a real issue report and its verified fix.
- Astra CLI on Linux via Homebrew fails with "exec format error: astra"
How to fix: Astra CLI on Linux via Homebrew fails with "exec format error: astra". The homebrew tap originally shipped only the macOS binary, so on Linux you got exec format error. The maintainer fixed the formula in 0.2.1 to install a port
- Astra CLI: astra setup crashes with "UnsatisfiedLinkError: jdk.internal.io.JdkConsoleImpl.echo(Z)Z"
How to fix: Astra CLI: astra setup crashes with "UnsatisfiedLinkError: jdk.internal.io.JdkConsoleImpl.echo(Z)Z". The crash happens when astra setup tries to read the token interactively from the console, so bypass the prompt entirely: run a
- ggshield ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' on macOS
Fixed in ggshield 1.52.1, where setup_truststore() falls back to the bundled certifi certificates when the macOS version cannot be parsed instead of crashing. Run brew upgrade ggshield to get it.
- Does brew install get an arm64 binary of cb on Mac? (x64 binary crashes)
Teaches the verified fix from a real crunchy-bridge support thread: does brew install get an arm64 binary of cb on Mac? (x64 binary crashes)
- ggshield ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'truststore' on macOS via Homebrew
Uninstall and reinstall from core, dropping the old tap: brew uninstall ggshield, brew untap gitguardian/tap, then brew install ggshield. The reporter confirmed this fixed the crash.
- Astra CLI: NullPointerException ("keyspaces" is null) on astra db cqlsh
How to fix: Astra CLI: NullPointerException ("keyspaces" is null) on astra db cqlsh. The verified fix from the maintainer thread, distilled into reusable steps.
- Fix confluent-kafka build error: librdkafka/rdkafka.h file not found
My `pip install confluent-kafka` died compiling because the C headers for librdkafka were missing. Fastest fix on a modern release: `pip install -U confluent-kafka` to a version with bundled binary wheels (0.11.4+), which never compiles any
- cb login fails in a Devcontainer: error: Error executing process: 'command': No such file or directory
What this covers: I was setting up the Crunchy Bridge CLI inside a VS Code Devcontainer on Debian bullseye. The fix that worked: This was a bug in the brew-installed cb binary when run inside a container, fixed in v3.4.4, so upgrading is th
- confluent-kafka install fails on Apple M1: just use 1.9.2 or newer
On Apple M1, pip install confluent-kafka failed with no arm64 wheels and a source build that could not find brew librdkafka headers. macOS arm64 wheels shipped in v1.9.2, so upgrade and skip the build dance.