macOS Monterey 12.74 brew install error

[britus]

Hi Community
so I want to install ext4fuse like mentioned on the web site https://www.maketecheasier.com/mount-access-ext4-partition-mac/, but I got an installation error. So my question is: Is ext4fuse made for Mac OSX or for Linux. I remember me, that Linux already contains ext4 FS as native implementation ?!

How can I install ext4fuse on my MacBook?

$ brew install ext4fuse
ext4fuse: Linux is required for this software.
libfuse@2: Linux is required for this software.
Error: ext4fuse: Unsatisfied requirements failed this build.

Best Regards

[calaverasgrande]

I'm in the same boat

[CrushedAsian255]

you can build it from source pretty easily, download the source files and run make
PS: you will need to run using sudo with the cli argument -o allow_other if mounting a physical volume (disk /dev/disk[something])
I also had this problem, I think the Homebrew entry is not configured properly

[DigitalGentleman]

you can build it from source pretty easily, download the source files and run make PS: you will need to run using sudo with the cli argument -o allow_other if mounting a physical volume (disk /dev/disk[something]) I also had this problem, I think the Homebrew entry is not configured properly

Could you explain this a little more? I'm a noob, so I don't know what this all means (sorry)

[gingerbeardman]

Same as #76, #74, #66

[GwynethLlewelyn]

Same as #76, #74, #66

Indeed — I wonder if there is a way to alert the Homebrew maintainers...

@DigitalGentleman I don't know if you have figured it out by yourself (it's true that the compilation instructions are scarce), but if you haven't, my first question to you is if you have set up a command-line compilation environment on your Mac, using Homebrew's own toolset, and are moderately familiar with compiling binaries from source.

If not, well, I'm afraid that this requires a lot of explanations...

[MisutaaAsriel]

Homebrew/homebrew-core#229680 (comment)

It depends on macFUSE on macOS, which is not open source and therefore not eligible for inclusion in homebrew/core. https://docs.brew.sh/Interesting-Taps-and-Forks#unsupported-interesting-taps has a tap suggestion for FUSE formulae though.

So… it looks like Homebrew at some point made a policy change to disallow brew formulae that rely on closed source libraries, frameworks, or binaries.

Which means any Mac-targeted brew formulae relying on macFUSE cannot be, ironically, installed on Mac.

They for some reason keep these FUSEs up for Linux, because technically they can be used on Linux without closed source frameworks, even though in ext4fuse and many others' cases, these FSes are native to the Linux kernel and thus a FUSE for them is superfluous.

Boowomp.

[gromgit]

https://docs.brew.sh/Interesting-Taps-and-Forks#unsupported-interesting-taps
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Which means any Mac-targeted brew formulae relying on macFUSE cannot be, ironically, installed on Mac.

As the maintainer of the macOS FUSE formula tap that's listed in the above link, I disagree.

[MisutaaAsriel]

Which means any Mac-targeted brew formulae relying on macFUSE cannot be, ironically, installed on Mac.

As the maintainer of the macOS FUSE formula tap that's listed in the above link, I disagree.

I was speaking specifically to core formulae. Homebrew is a package manager at the end of the day. Nothing stops anyone from providing their own tap and recipes for installing packages not included as part of homebrew-core.

Thank you for maintaining a tap though. That is useful, albeit annoying that it's even necessary.