Homebrew error running brew tap caskroom/cask [answered]

asked 2020-07-04 13:36:17 +0200

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updated 2020-07-04 13:37:56 +0200

I am trying to use Sailfish X on an Xperia 10, I had a Jolla phone ages ago, but wanted to give Sailfish another try. I got an Xperia 10 and got the phone running out of the box, downloaded SailfishX, installed homebrew on my Mac then hit 2 problems 1 “brew tap caskroom/cask” fails, need to run homebrew/cask-cask instead (according to error message) and 2 that fails with a “Repository not found” error.

I am way out of my comfort zone with this, so any help would be appreciated! Is the documentation in error or have I done something wrong?

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Presumably your Xperia 10 is running Android 9 and satisfied yourself that WLAN, Network data and Camera all working satisfactorily before proceeding? After installing Homebrew did you brew cask install android-platform-tools Personally I wasted a lot of time with an Xperia 10 as camera works under both Android 9 & 10 but not under Sailfish OS. Instructions for installing Sailfish X using Mac OSX could be better as seem to expect first Linux then Windows to be methods of choice. Whilst I am running OSX Catalina now, first installed Homebrew and android-platform-tools probably back in Mavericks time and know some users mention issues with fastboot & adb upon Catalina unfortunately.

aspergerguy ( 2020-07-04 17:27:09 +0200 )edit

I ran this as per the instructions after installing homebrew:

brew tap caskroom/cask

and got the error I mentioned, I didn’t try and run the next step, should I?

DavidG ( 2020-07-04 17:45:32 +0200 )edit

What does brew doctorelicit and what about brew cask upgrade? You would need android-platform-tools_r30.0.0

aspergerguy ( 2020-07-04 19:39:17 +0200 )edit

I’ll try them tomorrow. All I can say is that I am following the instructions here: https://jolla.com/sailfishx-xperia10-macos/

DavidG ( 2020-07-04 19:54:45 +0200 )edit

You might like to look at this resource for difference between 'brew" and "brew cask" link text You don't have to use "cask" but can still use brew install android-platform-toolsas here:link text

aspergerguy ( 2020-07-04 21:02:51 +0200 )edit