Is there a way to fix brew install early eof error?

Question

Whenever I type any brew install command into the terminal I always get the same error:

==> Tapping homebrew/cask
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 659774, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (338/338), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (170/170), done.
error: 6957 bytes of body are still expected.31 MiB | 4.20 MiB/s
fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
Error: Failure while executing; `git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask --origin=origin --template=` exited with 128.

Is there anyway of fixing it? (I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling homebrew and other methods)

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '22 at 18:51

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That is basically git clone issue, try turn off the compression to see it helps.

git config --global core.compression 0

answered Aug 03 '22 at 18:51

chenrui

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I still get the same error – ECMC Aug 09 '22 at 16:40
Try some ideas in that thread, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21277806/fatal-early-eof-fatal-index-pack-failed – chenrui Aug 10 '22 at 22:31
It is basically some networking issue. – chenrui Aug 10 '22 at 22:31
This actually fixed my issues. Thanks – hdsenevi Jul 05 '23 at 13:02

Is there a way to fix brew install early eof error?

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