Can't locate some of my apps

[kaustavha]

This seemed to remove sublime text, chrome and spectacleapp that i'd installed prior to running .dots. It seems to remove non-default installed apps.

[donnemartin]

Hi @kaustavha, hmm that's odd, this is the first I've heard of this issue. You mention Sublime and Chrome seem to have been removed--they are actually installed in the Applications folder with brew.sh:

Sublime: https://github.com/donnemartin/dev-setup/blob/master/brew.sh#L150
Chrome: https://github.com/donnemartin/dev-setup/blob/master/brew.sh#L157

These two apps don't appear for you in the Applications folder?

[kaustavha]

I'm not 100% sure about spectacle since I just tried to reinstall it and it said it was in applications and asked for an override then started showing it.

My best guess was somehow brew.sh overwrote the chrome and sublime installs because after the restart the dock icons turned into question marks.

There was also a program installed called suspicious package.app which didn't seem to do anything, copyrights says mothers ruin software 2008-2016.

Worth mentioning I tried this on the new 2016 mbp running sierra 10.12.2 and over fairly slow hostel wifi, although doesn't seem to have broken installs since other installed stuff like Firefox, atom is doing fine

[kaustavha]

So i ran the cmd for installing chrome:

And got the same symptom, well actually chrome stopped working first and new websites wouldnt load, so i quit it then it wouldnt start again:

Reinstall from .dmg, this is how i first installed it too. Bit of weirdness here now too after the brew cask install:

Anyway, managed to start chrome, 2 icons pop up now, both work:

[donnemartin]

Nice work, thank you for the additional investigation and info! 👍

I'll try to take a closer look in the next couple of days, although it appears this might be something related to how brew cask install handles already existing apps, which might be outside the scope of dev-setup.

[kaustavha]

Yea I agree. I'll make a report on the cask page as well tomorrow and see if I can track down the cause. Although you can still failproof your application by checking to see if things are already installed and skipping them. Dunno which is a better solution yet, hopefully upstream in brew cask is easy fix.

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On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 9:11 PM Donne Martin ***@***.***> wrote: Nice work, thank you for the additional investigation and info! 👍 I'll try to take a closer look in the next couple of days, although it appears this might be something related to how brew cask install handles already existing apps, which might be outside the scope of dev-setup. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#57 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADGQD49D4EIbVBDqKt-prVq32HV4Iouoks5rNdXmgaJpZM4LYecT> .

[donnemartin]

Although you can still failproof your application by checking to see if things are already installed and skipping them

This Stack Overflow post seems to indicate this needs to be done per item installed. brew.sh installs many packages and I'm not sure about doing this check for each one, if I understand the post correctly.

The install logic in the image you posted doesn't seem right to me:

• "Seems there is already an App at ..."
• Removing App
• An error occurred
• Nothing to install

Have you had a chance to file an issue with brew?

[kaustavha]

Not yet. Thank you, Kaustav

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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Donne Martin ***@***.***> wrote: Although you can still failproof your application by checking to see if things are already installed and skipping them This Stack Overflow post <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20802320/detect-if-homebrew-package-is-installed/20802425#20802425> seems to indicate this needs to be done per item installed. brew.sh installs many packages and I'm not sure about doing this check for each one, if I understand the post correctly. The install logic in the image you posted doesn't seem right to me: - "Seems there is already an App at ..." - Removing App - An error occurred - Nothing to install Have you had a chance to file an issue with brew? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#57 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADGQD50Abm7r7dUzJdid4eWDfMDaulkSks5rPcDBgaJpZM4LYecT> .