Topic: WyseNynja's Homebrew tap for all your OSX bitcoin needs (Read 5452 times)

Cheers for this bro!

I initially found your tap on GitHub, where you stated you had a custom tap containing vanitygen (https://github.com/samr7/vanitygen/issues/45), which is maybe worth mentioning here as well.

The only concern I have is that of safety... How can I know there is no backdoor in the scripts, reporting back private keys to you?

I've updated bitcoind (and bitcoin-cli) to version 0.9.0!  It builds on Mavericks easily.

I'm still working on the --with-coinpunk flag.

I've updated the tap to install bitcoind 0.8.5.  It only works on mavericks if you install with `brew install wysenynja/bitcoin/bitcoind --HEAD`

I expect 0.8.6 to work with Mavericks without issue.

Bumped bitcoind to version 0.8.0.  --HEAD will install the latest master

Armory version bumped to 0.87-beta!

I hope he is not behaving like this in real life, otherwise he will run into trouble quickly!


Looks like the keyserver that was the obvious one to use back when I configured my gpg installation (last century, probably!!) is no longer current.  Switching to Ububtu's fixed the problem.  Everything now works just fine.  Thanks again for the homebrew formula, Red Emerald!

Now I see why your ignore link is starting to change color.  I'll help it along.

The key is on a keyserver.  It just isn't in his keychain or the keyserver he queried.  I don't automatically add etotheipi's key to your keychain because the git verify-tag command does it automatically.  I've queried a bunch of keyservers for this key and every one has worked but pgp.keyserver.com.  You have to manually upload and verify your key with them.

The key is definitely on keyserver.ubuntu.com

if your just going to criticize then don't even post in the thread, the dude made one mistake and you acted like an asshole instead of pointing it out, and it is just a script not a full program. Dude get over yourself if your such a great coder wheres your projects? I am not even going to answer anymore since I am not going to fill a good dudes thread up with stupidity from a 12yr kid which you are obviously.

Red Emerald is actually making an unpaid effort to help us install Armory in an easier way.  You really are quite hostile to him!

Most likely my gpg setup is querying the wrong keyserver.  While it would be nice if things worked in the first try, sometimes it takes a few attempts before such a setup script works for everyone.

I tried the updated tap - sure enough, now it called gpg (but it also first replaced my ancient gpg installation with homebrews ...)
Now it gives a new error, perhaps my gpg is not set up optimally, I rarely use it.


Now it is compiling with the --skip-verify flag, no problems so far.

Well that would probably do it.  First they should just try updating the tap though, because it should be fixed without manually linking things.

I am pretty sure git is not calling gpg with a fixed path.  I'm pretty sure it's just that brew's superenv uses a minimal path to avoid breaking things.

try fixing it with this (as root or with sudo):
i saw alot of scripts/binarys which call gpg directly with /usr/bin/gpg, so this may be the problem here

There is no need to be hostile.  Did the update work for you or not?

Weird that it works for me.

It's not a "real problem" considering it is documented


I just made a change to the formula that will hopefully work for you guys.  Try it out.

When brew installs things, I think it uses a modified PATH.


Until we figure this out, you can install with the "--skip-verify" "--without-gpg" flag.

Dear Red Emerald,

Thanks a lot for making this tap.  It really makes it a lot easier - except that this time I run into a snag:


Note that I do have gpg installed, and can run it from the command line:

You can now easily install the testing branch of armory-qt

I have made my own homebrew tap to make it easier to compile bitcoind, bitcoind-next-test, and armory-qt from source on Mac OSX. It's been up and working for me for a while, and I've posted about it elsewhere, but I figured it deserved it's own thread.

https://github.com/wysenynja/homebrew-bitcoin

If you don't yet have homebrew, it is incredibly easy to install.

It's always a good idea to keep brew up to date and to check with the doctor to make sure everything is running smoothly.  If you just installed homebrew, you will more than likely need to also install Xcode (don't worry, it's free and easy to get from the App Store) and the Command Line Tools that come with Xcode.  The doctor should tell you how.

Now you are ready to get my formula!

Now you can install things!  I used to have to prefix my install targets with "wysenynja/bitcoin/" but since the last time I updated, I haven't needed to.

Try one (or all) of these first.

And if those fail (let me know if they do), do it like this:

All of the source comes from their official repositories.  I'm just providing formula to make the install easy.

bitcoind is the v0.7.2 tag of https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
bitcoind-next-test is the next-test branch of https://github.com/luke-jr/bitcoin
armory-qt is the v0.86.3-beta tag of https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory

EDIT: When installing armory-qt, the git tag is verified against etotheipi's armory signing key. The git command will attempt to add the key to your keychain for you, but sometimes your default keyserver does not have the key (keyserver.pgp.com is missing armory's because keys have to manually added and verified there).

If armory fails to add the key for you, you can get it for sure from ubuntu.  This step will more than likely NOT need to be run, but if you get the error "gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found" then run this.