How to install cask for homebrew on mac

I have set up git and homebrew, ran brew reset-update, brew update and brew doctor none of these give me errors but when I try to install glew using: brew install glew it gives me many errors:

fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly30.11 MiB | 4.92 MiB/s fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed Error: Failure while executing; `git clone /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask` exited with 128. 

I figured it was because cask wasn't installed(even though from what I've read it's supposed to install with homebrew) so tried to install cask separately too but it also gives me the same error as the bottom one, I've also tried reinstalling git and homebrew, updating everything as well as restarting my mac. Any help would be appreciated.

4 Answers

You can install cask using this command:

$ brew install cask 

For details, please see

2

Homebrew Cask is implemented as part of Homebrew. All Homebrew Cask commands begin with brew

Please refer the link for more details

You can do

brew tap homebrew/cask 

which makes additional apps available for install. Then simply

brew install glew 

would do.

At the time of this writing, Cask is already installed as part of Homebrew on Macs. You just need to run:

homebrew <my-command> --cask 

For reference, see this thread on the deprecation.

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