How to remove julia from homebrew casks?

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I have an old version of julia that was probably installed via homebrew (I am running on MacOS).
When I ran brew upgarde I got this:

==> Casks with 'auto_updates true' or 'version :latest' will not be upgraded; pass `--greedy` to upgrade them.
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
julia 0.6.4 -> 1.7.2
==> Upgrading julia
==> Downloading https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/mac/x64/1.7/julia-1.7.2-mac64.dmg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Backing App 'Julia-0.6.app' up to '/usr/local/Caskroom/julia/0.6.4/Julia-0.6.app'
==> Removing App '/Applications/Julia-0.6.app'
==> Unlinking Binary '/usr/local/bin/julia'
==> Purging files for version 1.7.2 of Cask julia
==> Purging files for version 1.7.2 of Cask julia
Warning: Reverting upgrade for Cask julia
==> Moving App 'Julia-0.6.app' to '/Applications/Julia-0.6.app'
==> Linking Binary 'julia' to '/usr/local/bin/julia'
Error: julia: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Julia-1.7.app'.

I would like to remove julia from brew casks so it will NOT upgrade it when I run brew upgrade. How can I do that?

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I would think that removing the version you installed by hand and then upgrading Homebrew will work.

Don’t know why you would want to “remove julia from brew casks”.

3

so you mean simply delete the application file Julia-0.6 from my Applications folder?

4

No, it appears to me that you already have an installation of Julia-1.7.2 in /Applications.
brew tries to upgrade from 0.6 to 1.7.2 and fails because of that, i.e.

Error: julia: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/Julia-1.7.app'.

What I’m saying is, delete /Applications/Julia-1.7.2 and try brew upgrade julia again.
Version 0.6 will be archived by brew if the upgrade is successfull and no longer be available under /Applications. If that is okay for you, proceed as detailed.

5

Or the other way around, brew remove julia?

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6

Or that, but OP says

so it will upgrade it when I run brew upgrade.

They appear to want to manage their installation via brew.

When juliaup becomes stable for MacOS, I would use that by the way.

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Sorry for my typo! I meant that I do NOT want brew to manage my julia upgrade. I want to do it myself.
So I guess that @gustaphe is right, and I can just do brew remove julia, right?

8

Yes! :slight_smile:

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9

Haha, I read it wrong the way you meant it.

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