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Asked: 2026-05-25T13:10:51+00:00

I have been trying to install Git using Homebrew on OSX Lion for over

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I have been trying to install Git using Homebrew on OSX Lion for over a week now, with no luck. Other installs have been fine, what am I doing wrong please?

MacBookPro:Rails pingu$ brew install git
==> Downloading http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 503
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.8\ (Ruby\ 1.8.7-249;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.7) http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2 -o /Users/pingu/Library/Caches/Homebrew/git-1.7.6.1.tar.bz2
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you follow the link that ‘brew install git’ spits out – you will find that the website is “Down for maintenance”. That’s why it is not working!

    A clever SO’er found the solution to this problem by using a mirror for the tar. You can read his instructions in this answer

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