I am a new macOS user. I just did a fresh install on an A1398 MacBook Pro and upgraded to Big Sur. As I am used to package managers, I decided to investigate Homebrew and Cakebrew to go along with it. I was able to install Homebrew, with no warnings or errors. Then, I installed Cakebrew with the brew
command.
Upon launching Cakebrew, the "All Formulae" list reports the following error:
Error: Calling 'brew search' with no arguments to output formulae is disabled! Use 'brew formulae' instead.
The same error occurs if I execute brew search
on the command-line.
Best Answer
Your error is from the
brew
command, and Cakebrew is just reporting it. You can see the error if, in Terminal, you do:brew search
. I suspect that your Cakebrew has not kept up with changes to thebrew
command.The version of Cakebrew installed via HomeBrew is version 1.2.5. I have always used that from Cakebrew web site. From there you will get version 1.2.7. Try that. The "All Formulae" list works for me.
Edit: The question was also asked here github. The recommendation is to update to version 1.3. This fixes the issue.