removed julia binary

[zmjones]

it would be better to install julia as a binary from a normal homebrew formula, since it is also distributed as source. this formula creates a name conflict with this tap.

[vitorgalvao]

I don’t find that a compelling argument. We have other duplicates with homebrew (avidemux, chicken of the vnc, macvim), and I don’t see why that would constitute an issue. Not only does it mean we sometimes can bring the apps to the hands of users sooner (it was the case with avidemux), it also means a user can choose to install either an already compiled executable (fast to get) or have it compiled from source (slow).

I haven’t tried it, but I’m thinking the conflict shouldn’t be too hard to solve (after all, we have those aforementioned casks, and as far as I know, they never posed a problem). You’re also acting on the assumption that users use that particular tap, which may very well not be the case.

If you could please explain what exactly are the messages pertaining to the conflict, we can try to solve the problem, but removing the cask doesn’t seem to me like the correct way of handling it.

[zmjones]

Ok fair enough.

The error occurs when I execute brew tap staticfloat/julia which generates a warning Warning: Could not tap staticfloat/julia/julia over phinze/cask/julia. Homebrew then doesn't seem to recognize the formula. The formula is downloaded but brew install julia results in Error: No available formula for juila

[vitorgalvao]

I don’t get that error, but I suspect what might be wrong (which would be easy and quick to fix). Could you please give me the output of brew doctor?

[zmjones]

Error: Failed to import: codebug
Error: Failed to import: command-q
Error: Failed to import: foto-magico
Error: Failed to import: julia
Error: Failed to import: onyx
Error: Failed to import: papers
Error: Failed to import: postbox
Error: Failed to import: quick-hue
Error: Failed to import: renamer
Error: Failed to import: shimo
Error: Failed to import: shoes
Error: Failed to import: sql-editor
Error: Failed to import: unison-usenet
Error: Failed to import: zepheer
Your system is ready to brew.

[vitorgalvao]

Yep, seems like good news. Run the following one-liner
ls -l /usr/local/Library/Formula | grep phinze-cask | awk '\''{print $9}'\'' | for evil_symlink in $(cat -); do rm -v /usr/local/Library/Formula/$evil_symlink; done

And that’s it, really, it should work now. After you run brew install julia again, you should see

Error: julia is a head-only formula
Install with `brew install --HEAD julia

And after running brew install --HEAD julia, it should work.

To explain what’s going on, the above code is from this comment, and is meant to fix this problem which occurs due to this issue.

Can you confirm everything now works for you as intended?

[zmjones]

yep that totally does. thanks for the help.

[vitorgalvao]

No problem. Glad to see it was an easy fix.