MacOS – How to make brew installed software take effect over the manually installed one

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I have an older version of software that I once manually installed through installation package (version 0.6.6 — I write it down here for later discussion purpose, but the version number is not relevant to this question).

Now I found brew is better why to manage the update/upgrade etc. So, I use brew to install the software by doing brew install terraform (version 0.6.9 — again, I write it down here for later discussion purpose, but the version number is not relevant to this question), which is all good so far.

However, when I do terraform version to query the current effective version, I found it's still the old version.

My question is how I can make the brew installed software take over.

A side question is that which I try to find out terraform's location, by run which terra (hit tab now), which I normally do for other software, the tab won't do the auto complete action for me. Why is that?

Best Answer

The easiest solution would be to simply delete the old version of the software.

If you want to keep both, you'll need to change your $PATH environment variable so that the location of the new version appears before the location of the old version. Do this by editing ~/.bash_profile.

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This command should show you where any openssl binaries may be located on your system:

locate openssl | grep bin/openssl

For homebrew, make sure you have /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin in your $PATH. You can check your current path setting by issuing echo $PATH.

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solution to install from source and get around the homebrew error

brew install openssl

-> Warning: openssl-1.0.2j already installed, it's just not linked.

brew link openssl

->Warning: Refusing to link: openssl Linking keg-only openssl means you may end up linking against the insecure, deprecated system OpenSSL while using the headers from Homebrew's openssl. Instead, pass the full include/library paths to your compiler e.g.: -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib

cd ~/scratch
git clone git@github.com:openssl/openssl.git
cd openssl
sudo mkdir /usr/local/ssl
sudo chmod 777 /usr/local/ssl
./config -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
make
make test
make install

now, you will think you failed. but per OpenSSL not getting linked with homebrew on El Capitan 10.11.6 you have to close your terminal then reopen it now

openssl version -a

will show that you are using the new version.

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