Cask Applications dir symlinks not generating?
jacobgraf opened this issue · comments
I ran script/bootstrap and then script/install and it appears that cask has successfully installed the apps I listed, but only a few of them symlinks into the "Applications" directory. There are none in the ~/Applications directory either. Any ideas what would cause some/most of them to install, but not symlink? I even ran 'dot' a few times but the symlinks don't generate then either. Thanks for your help!
You know, I'm not sure! I looked into things briefly and nothing really jumped out at me. Our usage of Homebrew isn't really too specialized here, so I kind of wonder if it's something with Homebrew that's worth looking into. Maybe there's some additional debug you can print out if you brew bundle manually? Or maybe there's some permissions mis-set in your ~/Applications dir?
Thanks for the quick response. I just did a fresh install of homebrew and that didn't fix it. Also, in the Brewfile script, you have the appdir set to /Applications, not ~/Applications. I definitely would prefer them to go into /Applications. Hmmm. Also, it's weird that some of them would get properly symlinked and others don't. There isn't a 'verbose' mode or anything I can enable to get more details, is there?
There isn't a 'verbose' mode or anything I can enable to get more details, is there?
Yeah, try running brew bundle -v.
Ahh. I think I figured it out. I think it has to do with the fact that when I first ran the scripts, I had a few of the apps already installed on my Mac. Just for consistency's sake, I deleted the apps and re-ran the dot command hoping they would fall into line. The problem was that the app was already flagged as 'installed' by cask. I ran brew cask uninstall appname and then re-ran the dot script and everything worked as expected! Thanks again!
Huh. Interesting! Glad things got sorted. ✨