Question

I’m attempting to install Homebrew, but I’m running into some issues. I listed the result below. How can I fix this problem?

$ ~ $ brew install wget
==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/wget-1.14.tar.gz
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/wget/1.14 --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc --with-ssl=openssl --disable-iri
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... ./configure: /usr/local/Library/ENV/4.3/sed:/bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
no
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh build-aux/config.sub
./configure: /usr/local/Library/ENV/4.3/sed: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
./configure: /usr/local/Library/ENV/4.3/sed: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

READ THIS: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting

Note: I uninstalled MacPorts beforehand and brew doctor works without a hitch.

Solved: I settled with an alternate installation method (“Untar anywhere”) that I found on the Homebrew wiki page.

What I ran: mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew

Answer 1

/bin/bash^M is your clue. For some reason there’s a DOS line-end character in what’s being downloaded. This is probably an error in the formula, but if you’re adventurous, you can brew install dos2unix and then run dos2unix on the folder in question.