Linux: curl version issue #4288

danb123 · 2023-03-01T03:49:17Z

danb123
Mar 1, 2023

Additional Info

I am using Windows Subsystem for Linux

Output of `brew config`

Error: Please update your system curl or set HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH to a newer version.
Minimum required version: 7.41.0
Your curl version: 7.29.0
Your curl executable:
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.0.4-86-g7c15dce
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 7c15dce285900c85476d445dcbc01418e61be37c
Last commit: 12 hours ago
Core tap origin: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 41165290bead61f90c288fedd4f8432296cd60a0
Core tap last commit: 2 hours ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 24
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.8 => /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.8_1/bin/ruby
CPU: 24-core 64-bit zen
Clang: N/A
Git: 2.38.1 => /bin/git
Curl: 7.29.0 => /bin/curl
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core)  (Core)
Host glibc: 2.17
/usr/bin/gcc: 4.8.5
/usr/bin/ruby: 2.0.0
glibc: 2.35_1
gcc@11: N/A
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

Output of `brew doctor`

Error: Please update your system curl or set HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH to a newer version.
Minimum required version: 7.41.0
Your curl version: 7.29.0
Your curl executable:
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected header files:
  /usr/local/include/boost/python/detail/python22_fixed.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/regex.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/array.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/random.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/regex.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/tuple.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/type_tra.h
  /usr/local/include/boost/tr1/tr1/bcc32/unordere.h

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries:
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_atomic.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_chrono.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_context.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_coroutine.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_date_time.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_exception.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_filesystem.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_graph.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_iostreams.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_locale.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_log.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_log_setup.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99f.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_c99l.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_tr1.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_tr1f.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_math_tr1l.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_program_options.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_random.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_regex.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_serialization.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_signals.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_system.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_test_exec_monitor.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_thread.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_timer.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_wave.a
  /usr/local/lib/libboost_wserialization.a

Warning: Your Homebrew's prefix is not /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew.

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Description of issue

I guess I have a "chicken and the egg" problem. Unfortunately I'm on a system without root access. This is actually why I want to use Linux homebrew. The existing version of curl on the system is not current enough for brew. I did install a newer version of curl in my home directory and then pointed brew to that using HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH, but, that fails completely since the versions of curl and libcurl do not match. I don't think I can easily install or run my own version of libcurl?

Homebrew has the option to install curl as well, but, that install itself also needs an existing, new enough, version of curl, already on the system.

Thanks,
Dan

gromgit · 2023-03-01T05:36:15Z

gromgit
Mar 1, 2023

CentOS 7.4 is almost 6 years old as of this writing, so the following may or may not work:

mkdir -p ~/tmp

# Download a modern statically-linked curl
curl -L -o ~/tmp/static-curl https://github.com/moparisthebest/static-curl/releases/download/v7.88.1/curl-amd64
chmod +x ~/tmp/static-curl

# Check that you can actually run this binary
~/tmp/static-curl --version

# See if Homebrew accepts it
HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH=${HOME}/tmp/static-curl brew config

# If so, install Homebrew curl with it...
HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH=${HOME}/tmp/static-curl brew install curl

# ...then see if Homebrew's happy to use its own curl
brew config

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danb123 Mar 1, 2023
Author

Yes, sorry I didn't show that. Here are the results. The first command seemed to run fine:

dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:~ $ HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH=${HOME}/tmp/static-curl brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.0.4-86-g7c15dce
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 7c15dce285900c85476d445dcbc01418e61be37c
Last commit: 18 hours ago
Core tap origin: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 41165290bead61f90c288fedd4f8432296cd60a0
Core tap last commit: 7 hours ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH: /home/dbarrowman/tmp/static-curl
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: vim
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 24
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.8 => /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.8_1/bin/ruby
CPU: 24-core 64-bit zen
Clang: N/A
Git: 2.38.1 => /bin/git
Curl: 7.88.1 => /home/dbarrowman/tmp/static-curl
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-693.2.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
OS: CentOS Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) (Core)
Host glibc: 2.17
/usr/bin/gcc: 4.8.5
/usr/bin/ruby: 2.0.0
glibc: 2.35_1
gcc@11: N/A
gcc: N/A
xorg: N/A

Here are the tail results of the 2nd command showing the error. The run output was quite long so I couldn't include all of it.

==> Fetching curl
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/curl/manifests/7.88.1
Already downloaded: /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/df1deb709cbf6f6ab7075358916421ef97d1d09cb6dbcb1b9e6bd9c5f194c4ff--curl-7.88.1.bottle_manifest.json
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/curl/blobs/sha256:f915f992603842a7f608881e78d696fb9fd288e7fcf0f9f9c2b76fb72c2508e4
Already downloaded: /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/5a2f86ec429b816fbbe671808bc57c1a6a469efa1f19cff981c4b9a957dc74e6--curl--7.88.1.x86_64_linux.bottle.tar.gz
==> Installing dependencies for curl: xz, zlib, zstd, binutils, gcc, brotli, pkg-config, libunistring, libidn2, libnghttp2, ca-certificates, [email protected], libssh2, libxcrypt, gpatch, ncurses, readline, util-linux, openldap, rtmpdump, m4, bison, libedit and krb5
==> Installing curl dependency: xz
==> ./configure --prefix=/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar/xz/5.4.1
Last 15 lines from /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/Logs/xz/01.configure:

Initializing Automake:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a race-free mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style)
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... no
configure: error: in /tmp/xz-20230301-24720-1w4j76r/xz-5.4.1': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See config.log' for more details

READ THIS: https://docs.brew.sh/Troubleshooting

/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github/api.rb:317:in raise_error': curl failed! % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current (GitHub::API::Error) Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 curl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: none from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github/api.rb:241:in open_rest'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github.rb:186:in search' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github.rb:190:in search_results_items'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github.rb:40:in search_issues' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils/github.rb:70:in issues_for_formula'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb:498:in fetch_issues' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb:493:in issues'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb:549:in dump' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:150:in rescue in

'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:138:in <main>' /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2538:in block in system': Failed executing: ./configure --disable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --prefix=/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar/xz/5.4.1 (BuildError)
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2474:in open' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2474:in system'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/xz.rb:30:in install' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:177:in block (3 levels) in install'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/kernel.rb:525:in with_env' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:139:in block (2 levels) in install'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1325:in block in brew' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2705:in block (2 levels) in stage'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/kernel.rb:525:in with_env' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2704:in block in stage'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:158:in block (2 levels) in unpack' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb:116:in chdir'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb:116:in chdir' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/download_strategy.rb:103:in stage'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:154:in block in unpack' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/mktemp.rb:77:in block in run'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/mktemp.rb:77:in chdir' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/mktemp.rb:77:in run'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:266:in stage_resource' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:153:in unpack'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/resource.rb:127:in

stage' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.8_1/lib/ruby/2.6.0/forwardable.rb:230:in

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from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:2684:in stage' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:1318:in brew'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:133:in block in install' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/extend/kernel.rb:525:in with_env'
from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:128:in install' from /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/build.rb:229:in '

danb123 Mar 1, 2023
Author

I set the environment variable:
dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:/.cache/Homebrew $ export HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH="${HOME}/tmp/static-curl"
dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:/.cache/Homebrew $ printenv | grep HOMEBREW
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY=/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_CURL_PATH=/home/dbarrowman/tmp/static-curl
HOMEBREW_PREFIX=/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew
HOMEBREW_CELLAR=/home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar

but then tried installing something and it still didn't work:

dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:~ $ brew install tree
==> Fetching dependencies for tree: xz, zlib, zstd, binutils and gcc
==> Fetching xz
Warning: Building xz from source as the bottle needs:

HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar)
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew)
==> Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lzmautils/xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/ca0c062e8ecb14160415874ad277c80d73d9a9d00aa926ff11a32e877f6651fe--xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
==> Fetching zlib
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1
curl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: none

Error: tree: Failed to download resource "zlib_bottle_manifest"
Download failed: https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1

danb123 Mar 1, 2023
Author

Tried setting HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_CURL as well:

dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:~ $ export HOMEBREW_FORCE_BREWED_CURL=1
dbarrowman@stark02-vm-lnode02:~ $ brew install tree
Running brew update --auto-update...
==> Fetching dependencies for curl: xz, zlib, zstd, binutils, gcc, brotli, pkg-config, libunistring, libidn2, libnghttp2, ca-certificates, [email protected], libssh2, libxcrypt, gpatch, ncurses, readline, util-linux, openldap, rtmpdump, m4, bison, libedit and krb5
==> Fetching xz
Warning: Building xz from source as the bottle needs:

HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar)
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew)
==> Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lzmautils/xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/ca0c062e8ecb14160415874ad277c80d73d9a9d00aa926ff11a32e877f6651fe--xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
==> Fetching zlib
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1
curl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: none

Error: curl: Failed to download resource "zlib_bottle_manifest"
Download failed: https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1
Error: 'curl' must be installed and in your PATH!
==> Fetching dependencies for tree: xz, zlib, zstd, binutils and gcc
==> Fetching xz
Warning: Building xz from source as the bottle needs:

HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Cellar (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew/Cellar)
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew (yours is /home/dbarrowman/.linuxbrew)
==> Downloading https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lzmautils/xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /home/dbarrowman/.cache/Homebrew/downloads/ca0c062e8ecb14160415874ad277c80d73d9a9d00aa926ff11a32e877f6651fe--xz-5.4.1.tar.gz
==> Fetching zlib
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1
curl: (77) error setting certificate verify locations: CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CApath: none

Error: tree: Failed to download resource "zlib_bottle_manifest"
Download failed: https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/zlib/manifests/1.2.13-1

gromgit Mar 1, 2023

At this point, you'll have to ask yourself "how badly do I want Homebrew"? You'll be paying a very heavy price for not being able to install Homebrew in the officially sanctioned location.

Some formulae have relocatable bottles (e.g. gcc, I think, which is a good thing--you really don't want to have to build GCC from scratch). For those like xz which don't, you'll have to read through the build logs to see what went wrong, and figure out how to fix them. (On Linux, the build logs for <formula> are generally in ~/.cache/Homebrew/Logs/<formula>/.)

One alternative is to decide exactly what software you need, then download the source tarballs and build them from scratch. You can then configure them with exactly as many features as you require. (Homebrew curl has a rather long list of dependencies because it's meant to cater to a large audience, so it enables quite a few things that may not be relevant to you.) You'd also have to use a package versioning tool like graft to organize your software installs, so that long-term maintenance doesn't drive you up the wall.

Either way, you'll have to get comfortable with building from source, and fixing whatever issues crop up.

danb123 Mar 1, 2023
Author

Yes I agree with what you are saying. This all resulted from me just looking for a way to install certain software and trying to find a way to do that. So it's more of a general problem, and yes, I don't want to have some weird, unstable config that can constantly have issues.

I have already installed some things from source so I have a general idea of how to do that. This has also been a good learning experience anyway. Something for the future that I can use for my home setup where I have more control and not this locked down work environment with an ancient Centos image and no root access. :)

But I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to help me and you have definitely helped me at least learn some new things.

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