Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, OK, one more suggestion. I think you want to update rather than uninstalling Homebrew. I'm going to assume that you installed the command line tools from Xcode 6 (as part of the general set up requirements for Homebrew), and that you went through the earlier step of changing the sym

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I already tried the 4 command lines. it won't let me update. It says that home brew can only be installed on Leppard and higher. I'm running Yosemite. and this is after creating the simlink as instructed in the article. Is there a way to completely remove it and start over as I'm thinking

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I got it working. I found an article on what to type to compleatly unisntall home brew so I did that entering in 1 cmd by one. Ten I reset the xcode comand line tools with xcode-select --reset afterwich I then reinstalled home brew. All appears to work, and let's hope I don't have to do this

Re: [Mac-access]: Creating and deleting hot spot

2015-01-13 Thread christopher hallsworth
Try opening the Hotspot Chooser with vo-1-1. I'm going by VoiceOver help, commands help here so if this is not accurate then apologies in advance. On 14 Jan 2015, at 00:30, George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net wrote: I created a hot spot to close an app, on the mac, a few months ago , but

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
What is home Brew. I've never even heard of it. Sorry. Chris. - Original Message - From: Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: mac access list iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 2:12 PM Subject: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

[Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
hello all. I'm tryign to reinstall home brew. I followed the prompts but got this when doin ghte clean up. usr/local/bin/brew: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/brew: line

[Mac-access]: Creating and deleting hot spot

2015-01-13 Thread George Cham
I created a hot spot to close an app, on the mac, a few months ago , but I’ve forgotten the voice over commands to add and delete a hot spot. Any help would be appreciated . George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, I haven't been following what you're trying to do, but the likely source of your problem is that Yosemite changed both the default version of Ruby (2.0 instead of 1.8.7) and its location, while Homebrew has sym links that are coded to expect the older version of Ruby. Since it can't

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
It's a package manager similar to the one that ships with devian. Hth. On Jan 13, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: What is home Brew. I've never even heard of it. Sorry. Chris. - Original Message - From: Sarah k Alawami

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Aa, kind of like dpkg, or gdebi. Gotcha. Chris. - Original Message - From: Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com To: mac access list iOS Accessibility mac-access@mac-access.net Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew It's a

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Hmm, I looked there, actually I'm trying to uninstall it so I can start over. Even trying to install apps is failing. I read the github page but the author was of no help. Will try the page you cited On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Esther mori...@mac-access.net wrote: Hi Sarah, I haven't

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Ok, appears to have worked. I'm surprised that a google search for me did not show up, or it did nto show up on the github page, but the author is in the middle of moving stuff around so I might have in all fairness missed it. Cool cool! and Thanks. On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:44 PM, Esther

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
I take the last email back. it still failed with the same error and I followed that link to the letter. All appeared to have worked, but I guess not. I tried installing the software I needed, but still no go. I still came up with the following error. /usr/local/bin/brew:

[Mac-access]: mac air not reading my 64 gb card

2015-01-13 Thread Melissa Tucker
I got this card to put books on and some music, but when I insert the card, the mac wants to either let me ignore it, eject it, or initial it. I can't figure out how to get it to initial once I arror down to the right drive. Has anyone successfully used apple's sd card reader, and if so how?

Re: [Mac-access]: mac air not reading my 64 gb card

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Is the card formatted as fat32 or EXFat? It should be formatted as EXFat. On Jan 13, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Melissa Tucker melissatuck...@att.net wrote: I got this card to put books on and some music, but when I insert the card, the mac wants to either let me ignore it, eject it, or initial it.

Re: [Mac-access]: mac air not reading my 64 gb card

2015-01-13 Thread Melissa Tucker
Not sure. my stream formatted it originally, but the mac doesn't read it. How would I find out which way it is formated? On Jan 13, 2015, at 6:44 PM, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: Is the card formatted as fat32 or EXFat? It should be formatted as EXFat. On Jan 13, 2015, at

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Esther
Hi Sarah, It's possible that the update to Homebrew did not go through. If you are on Yosemite, 10.10 was supposed to install both Ruby 2.0 as a default, while Mavericks shipped with Ruby 1.8.7 to support some legacy software. That's one of the reasons I'm confused about whether you were

Re: [Mac-access]: trying to reinstall home brew

2015-01-13 Thread Sarah k Alawami
All I have is 2.0 actually. I don't remember installing this, but apparently I did at some point. Maybe it was today, but again I don't remember as it threw errors. I do have the command line tools installed though. I thought I uninstalled home brew 2 years ago when I did not need it which is