Error: caskroom/cask was moved. Tap homebrew/cask-cask instead

I try to go through installation process Github on MacOs Catalina

The first step is to execute in Terminal:

cd ~/ curl -s | bash 

But I get Error:

Error: caskroom/cask was moved. Tap homebrew/cask-cask instead. 

Then I tried:

brew tap caskroom/cask 

But I got the same error. Do you have any suggestions?

9 Answers

You don't need to install cask anymore, you just need homebrew. Try using any cask command

tap from homebrew instead of caskroom:

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts 

//this code error:

brew tap caskroom/fonts Error: caskroom/fonts was moved. 

//the correct code.

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts brew cask install font-fira-code brew install --cask font-fira-code (the new working way) 

OK, I understand, just type in brew cask, and wait...

MyMacBook-Pro:homebrew-core adam$ brew cask ==> Tapping homebrew/cask Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask'... remote: Enumerating objects: 3581, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (3581/3581), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3573/3573), done. remote: Total 3581 (delta 23), reused 578 (delta 6), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (3581/3581), 1.19 MiB | 18.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (23/23), done. Tapped 1 command and 3470 casks (3,586 files, 3.9MB). Homebrew Cask provides a friendly CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries. Commands: --cache display the file used to cache the Cask audit verifies installability of Casks cat dump raw source of the given Cask to the standard output create creates the given Cask and opens it in an editor doctor checks for configuration issues edit edits the given Cask fetch downloads remote application files to local cache home opens the homepage of the given Cask info displays information about the given Cask install installs the given Cask list with no args, lists installed Casks; given installed Casks, lists staged files outdated list the outdated installed Casks reinstall reinstalls the given Cask style checks Cask style using RuboCop uninstall uninstalls the given Cask upgrade upgrades all outdated casks zap zaps all files associated with the given Cask See also "man brew-cask" 

Here we go.

brew install alfred

I had the same issue and had to do the following...

1. Installing cask

 echo "installing caskroom" brew tap caskroom/cask; 

2. Then I was able to install applications as normal (e.g. Java)

 echo "installing java" brew cask install java; java -version; 

You don't need to install cask now. But the command has changed a bit. Like if you want to install java, you need to use:

brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8 

I found this question while reading the book, Docker Up and Running. While working through the installation chapter, I was working through installing Virtual Box on my Mac and encountered the problem referenced by this question. Note that at the time of this answer, for Macs, at least, you don't need to install Cask, as stated above. However, you also can't run the brew cask <my-command> anymore either. You'll instead need to run Cask commands in the form:

brew <my-command> --cask 

I hope this helps you as it helped me.

If you do not have homebrew installed on your mac, you can install it via

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )" 

To install java(latest version) just use below command

brew install java