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Yak shaving to get tmux installed on my Mac
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$ sudo brew install tmux | |
[...] | |
configure: error: "libevent not found" | |
$ sudo brew install -v tmux | |
Error: You must `brew link libevent' before tmux can be installed | |
$ sudo brew link libevent | |
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21... Warning: Could not link libevent. Unlinking... | |
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21/include/event.h | |
Target /usr/local/include/event.h already exists. You may need to delete it. | |
To force the link and delete this file, do: | |
brew link --overwrite formula_name | |
To list all files that would be deleted: | |
brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name | |
$ brew link --overwrite --dry-run formula_name | |
Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/formula_name | |
[That's because I'm an idiot and copy & paste whatever a computer tells me to run.] | |
$ sudo brew update | |
[...] | |
Just because. | |
$ sudo brew link --overwrite --dry-run libevent | |
Would remove: [...] | |
$ sudo brew link --overwrite libevent | |
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21... 25 symlinks created | |
$ sudo brew install tmux | |
[Worked!] |
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