Homebrew Error: No formulae found in taps

Question

I'm trying to install paramiko on my MacBook Pro (OSX Sierra) without going through Xcode because I'm too lazy to install Xcode honestly.

When trying to run:

brew install paramiko

I get:

Error: No available formula with the name "paramiko"
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

I've tried untapping home-brew via:

brew untap homebrew

And I get:

Error: No available tap homebrew/php.

Also tried:

brew tap --repair
brew update

Nothing besides:

Updated 1 tap (caskroom/cask).
No changes to formulae.

If I have to go through Xcode, that's fine but I feel the issue here is not the installation process but something weird with the taps...

`pip install paramiko` tried this? I'm facing the same issue and in one post someone recommended that you can also try pip3 (instead of pip), pip version may also be the cause. — AKS, Dec 16 '16 at 21:17
You may need to do : `brew install python3` to get pip3 and then `pip3 install paramiko` — AKS, Dec 16 '16 at 21:26
OK, I think I got it. You need pip3. For that you need Python3. You can install python3 using brew (provided you have latest or required XCode version) OR download Python3 binary for mac from their site https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.5.2/python-3.5.2-macosx10.6.pkg and then install it. Once installed, run `pip3 install paramiko`, you'd be good. — AKS, Dec 16 '16 at 21:41

score 80 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 02 '21 at 19:55

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This worked for me.

run brew doctor

Warning: Some taps are not on the default git origin branch and may not receive updates. If this is a surprise to you, check out the default branch with: git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master

then run git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core)

answered Feb 02 '21 at 19:55

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I used ```git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master``` and it worked – Denny Apr 08 '21 at 07:10
@TobiDaada I'm glad it worked for you. Could u give it a vote, it would help someone else – Denny May 17 '21 at 06:39
@Denny Just did :) – Tobi Daada May 17 '21 at 13:28
This worked for me, I was trying to install brew install maven, I was getting the "No formulae found in taps" error. I ran the command mentioned by Denny and it worked! Thanks so much! – Jordan Schuetz Jun 10 '21 at 20:39
@Denny , what does this command do ? git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master – Shahbaaz Khan Feb 03 '22 at 08:10
`brew doctor` works with me – Mhd Wael Jazmati Mar 24 '22 at 05:35

score 22 · Answer 2 · edited May 22 '22 at 19:15

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Run this command:

git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master

this will switch to master, then run

brew doctor

this should run without any error.

If there is no error you can install anything with brew install

ex: brew install wget

edited May 22 '22 at 19:15

Maqsood Ahmed

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answered Sep 22 '21 at 12:13

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Nice, It's worked for me. BTW, What is wget? – Dharmik Shah Sep 01 '22 at 09:21
this commands also helped installing redis. ```brew install redis``` – Gregory Bluvshteyn Oct 28 '22 at 03:28

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '22 at 07:57

I ran:

brew doctor

which gave me as first warning:

Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:

  rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
  brew tap homebrew/core

Running those 2 commands above solved the problem for me.

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 15 '22 at 09:03

I was also facing the same issue when installing Node via brew.

I fixed it by running two commands:

$ brew doctor

This shows me this warning:

Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:
  rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
  brew tap homebrew/core

Then I ran these two commands to fix the warning:

$ rm -rf "/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"

$ brew tap homebrew/core

And then I tried installing Node:

$ brew install node

It worked.

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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See if the following approach in the following link helps.

Depending upon your pip/python/xcode version, brew may not work in installing python or python3.
I installed Python3 binary .pkg for Mac from their site, installed it on Mac.
Then, opened a new Terminal window and did:

which python3 && python3 --version && which pip3 && pip3 --version

pip3 install paramiko

brew or pip - install credstash - errors - No named formulae found in taps / OSErr six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg-info operation not permitted

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered Dec 16 '16 at 21:59

AKS

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this worked for the same error with a different brew install – Laser Hawk May 26 '20 at 19:24

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 04 '22 at 06:15

Apparently, I also had this issue, I'm a developer.

I want to develop an OS with a command known as i686-elf-gcc, but with homebrew it doesn't work. So, use this:

brew doctor

And a warning will show up:

Warning: Homebrew/homebrew-core was not tapped properly! Run:
  rm -rf "/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"
  brew tap homebrew/core

So run these:

rm -rf "/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core"

brew tap homebrew/core

After that, I tried installing my package:

brew install i686-elf-gcc

And, it worked, it should also work for you.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 17 '19 at 19:56

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sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dart/bin/pub /usr/bin/pub
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/dart/bin/dart2js /usr/bin/dart2js

answered May 17 '19 at 19:56

Muhammed Moussa

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While this may answer the question it's better to add some description on how this answer may help to solve the issue. Please read [_How do I write a good answer_](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer) to know more. - [From review](https://stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/23043694) – Roshana Pitigala May 17 '19 at 21:15
i think it's clear enough, from question seems he familiar enough also with cli, so may be no need to description. – Muhammed Moussa May 18 '19 at 03:15

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Oct 16 '22 at 04:41

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git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) checkout master

this command helps

answered Oct 16 '22 at 04:41

Kumaraswamy Pendli

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