ImageMagick install fails: git "info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server"

[nrichards]

Installing ImageMagick fails. I did a 'brew update' before.

To me this looks like to me a "not found" when looking in the adamv/ folder, where does the homebrew ImageMagick GIT repository live...? According to 'brew info imagemagick' it's under mxcl/. (I am a newbie to brew but this looks like a 404)?

MacLappy:foo nick$ brew install imagemagick
/usr/local/bin/git
==> Cloning https://github.com/adamv/ImageMagick.git
Cloning into /Users/nick/Library/Caches/Homebrew/imagemagick--git...
fatal: https://github.com/adamv/ImageMagick.git/info/refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?
Error: Failure while executing: git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamv/ImageMagick.git /Users/nick/Library/Caches/Homebrew/imagemagick--git

MacLappy:foo nick$ git --version
git version 1.7.6

MacLappy:foo nick$ brew --version
0.8

MacLappy:foo nick$ uname -a
Darwin MacLappy.local 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

Thank you for the excellent package manager btw.

[weotch]

Having same issue.

[jacknagel]

The ImageMagick mirror was moved; you need to brew update. If that doesn't work you might have to git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD inside your Homebrew installation to get around a few persistent bugs in brew update.

[adamv]

cd into brew --prefix or open it in Finder, and drag the cached ImageMagick checkout into the trash.

You may also have to force a brew update per https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues?labels=update-install-issue&sort=updated&direction=desc&state=open&page=1

ImageMagick is no longer using the adamv mirror (it is using another mirror instead.)

[nrichards]

Thank you for your replies. My download issue is now solved.

@adamv - I removed the .git/ + .gitignore from /usr/local then re-cloned and the error persisted. Did I remove what you intended?
@jacknagel - This did the trick. git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD Now the machine is cloning from mxcl.

Building fails: it may be local, I'll post my results as I don't know if it's a bug. (coders/svg.c:93:26: error: librsvg/rsvg.h: No such file or directory \n coders/svg.c:97:38: error: librsvg/librsvg-features.h: No such file or directory)

[adamv]

Sorry, my instructions were incorrect.

Go into:

~/Library/Caches/Homebrew

and delete the ImageMagick folders from there.

[nrichards]

Got it - I now see what you're talking about adamv!

The ImageMagic build issue was resolved, yay! Per brew doctor I fixed my environment's PATH settings, adding to ~/.bashrc:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

[damonr]

Thank you this was extremely helpful to me.

[davidsomnus]

Running git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD in /usr/local did it for me. Thanks!

[stuliston]

Thanks dudes, just a heads up to say that @jacknagel's tip worked for me too..

cd cd /usr/local/Cellar
git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD

then brew install again

[ralphos]

Thanks for the detailed steps @stuliston. Worked for me also..