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dannymcc
Asked: 2012-08-03 02:49:39 +0800 CST

Brew install imagemagick curl fails

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I am getting the following error when trying to install imagemagick via brew on OS X Mountain Lion. It appears to be a curl error - hence why it's on SF not another of the Stack Exchange sites.

brew install imagemagick
==> Installing imagemagick dependency: pkg-config
==> Downloading http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.27.tar.gz

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
Error: Download failed: http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.27.tar.gz

Is it possible to pick an alternative download location when running the brew install imagemagick command?

Is this a known problem, I have searched for similar issues but none seem to be the same.

mac-osx

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I was having this exact problem (today as well, found your post while searching for a result)

    The following worked for me:

    cd /Library/Caches/Homebrew
curl -O http://fossies.org/unix/privat/pkg-config-0.27.tar.gz
brew install imagemagick

    Basically Homebrew will not re-download a file that it has cached, so its just about downloading the file from somewhere else (finding it was the hard part)

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  2. I didn't have a /Homebrew folder in my /Library/Caches directory. I made one and got the file, but brew install graphviz still tried the old formula's URL.

    I instead went to /usr/local/Library/Formula and edited the url property of pkg-config.rb to be that new URL from Stephen's answer.

    This worked well, and then I did a brew update to reset the recipes.

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