# Howmebrew update to v"0.5.4" gives error on both 0.5 and 0.6

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**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [March 20, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/howmebrew-update-to-v-0-5-4-gives-error-on-both-0-5-and-0-6/2775 "2017-03-20T14:52:08Z")
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### Author: ![Evizero](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/evizero/32/10118_2.png) [@Evizero](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Evizero)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/howmebrew-update-to-v-0-5-4-gives-error-on-both-0-5-and-0-6/2775/4 "2017-03-20T16:41:43Z")

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from [ImageMagick problem · Issue #178 · JuliaPackaging/Homebrew.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Homebrew.jl/issues/178#issuecomment-287804213)

> I regularly end up in a broken Homebrew.jl state after Pkg.update (every month or so). For example just now it spilled out some issue about a missing git tag or something.
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> What usually helps is Pkg.rm(“Homebrew”), deleting the folder .julia/v0.5/Homebrew, deleting the .julia/.cache/Homebrew and just installing Pkg.add(“Homebrew”) from scratch. This also likely means that you will have to Pkg.build a few things that you have which depend on Homebrew, like I think ImageMagick and Requests for example.
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> Did it right now and it worked like a charm
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> Anyway, surely not the cleanest method but it does the job and let’s me get back to work quickl

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