Error Messages when installing homebrew (Ubuntu 20.04.1)

[ignaraph]

Hey everyone, i tried installing Homebrew today on my Ubuntu System.

I ran the following : /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" as provided on the Homebrew website.

Im getting the following error messages:
error: RPC failed; curl 56 GnuTLS recv error (-9): Error decoding the received TLS packet.
fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF
fatal: index-pack failed
Error: Failure while executing; git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-coreexited with 128.
Error: Failure while executing; /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew tap homebrew/coreexited with 1. Failed during: /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew update --force
I tried looking for answers but couldn't solve it still.
Linux+Gnu Version : Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

[SMillerDev]

Something is blocking your connection to Github, there's nothing homebrew can do to fix this for you.

You can try doing just the curl part of the command with an added -v parameter to see if it gives you more details.

[ignaraph]

Used the -v option but it did not provide more details.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -vfsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

[ignaraph]

Hey these are the outputs of the first 2 commands:

URL to the pastebin: https://pastebin.com/tBj0czi4

[gromgit]

Upload /tmp/git.trace.curl to a GitHub Gist or https://pastebin.com/ , then post the URL of the gist/paste you created.

I meant "upload the contents of /tmp/git.trace.curl". The easiest way is to run xclip -sel clip < /tmp/git.trace.curl to copy the contents to your clipboard, then paste it into your existing pastebin.

[ignaraph]

Xclip command doesnt exist and using the first command tmp/git.trace.curl logs an error in the teriminal. I tried with "sudo" but still no output.

[carlocab]

cat /tmp/git.trace.curl

? You may need sudo.

[ignaraph]

Thank you, ive managed to do it:

Gist url: https://gist.github.com/ignaraph/3d613ff484b5ae0b4b855643dc44e1f1

[gromgit]

OK, now:

GIT_TRACE_CURL=/tmp/git.trace.curl.core git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew-core /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core

then upload /tmp/git.trace.curl.core in the same way.

[carlocab]

Try

tar -zcvf trace.tar.gz /tmp/git.trace.curl.core

and then upload the .tar.gz file here. See the bottom of the input textbox for instructions. You can click on those instructions to reveal an upload dialogue.

[ignaraph]

The tar.gz file is 85mb, to upload it, it must be smaller than 10mb.

[gromgit]

Try tail -1000 /tmp/git.trace.curl.core > /tmp/git.trace.curl.core.excerpt to extract the last 1000 lines of the curl log, and upload /tmp/git.trace.curl.core.excerpt.

[ignaraph]

Done.
Gist URL: https://gist.github.com/ignaraph/4a76fc268dc9a899ff4a6bfc6bbecd8e

[gromgit]

Hmmm. Your git can clearly talk to GitHub, enough that it can pull down a large part of the core tap, but it always fails the second fetch step for some TLS reason.

Are you using a web proxy on your system? What's the output of env | grep -i proxy?

[ignaraph]

The output was long so il put it in 2 images:

[ignaraph]

Hey, first command ran with no problems.

Second command didn't, this was the output:

error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
fatal: protocol error: bad pack header

[gromgit]

OK, now that both GnuTLS- and OpenSSL-enabled git clients are failing, it's no longer a software issue. There's something between your box and GitHub that's interfering with large Git transfers. You'll have to find someone closer to you to help track it down, because until you do, Homebrew will likely just keep failing at odd moments.

[p-linnane]

You're commenting in a thread from almost 5 years ago. We now have a JSON API, and don't require cloning Homebrew/core.

[p-linnane]

Since your GitHub profile says you're a student, let me offer you an additional learning opportunity. It's something called open source etiquette.

I hope you'll read it, take it to heart, and reassess how you interact with maintainers of open source projects in the future. Those maintainers know far more about how and why the project is run the way it is. Making absurd, uninformed statements like "Git is not an installer guys, this is why it doesn't work" is not appropriate.

You're also now banned from interacting with Homebrew on GitHub.

[ignaraph]

Solved!

I updated Ubuntu yesterday and was later able to install homebrew without any issues, thank you everyone for your help!

[jamieaa64]

For anyone else who gets here, I spent a good 3 hours on this.

It turns out Virgin Media had a child filter on that was filtering out all of github.com because its possible to download "hacking software". Wierdly the connection would time out after 47% not straight away. Turning off this filter fixed it.

[AVaunt-consulting]

This was it for me as well! Thank you so much.