brew install cassandra12 fails on Mac

Question

When I try to install cassandra12 on my Mac using:

brew install cassandra12

It fails with:

Error: No available formula with the name "homebrew/versions/cassandra12" 
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Updating, uninstalling and re-installing brew didn't help either. Can somebody help me with how to fix this issue?

Note: ' brew search cassandra ' shows cassandra21 and cassandra22 . I need cassandra12 specifically.

Answer 1

Cassandra 1.2 was removed from home-brew versions about a month ago .

zzatking posted the following on the pull request

If anyone really needs a version that was removed due to this pull request, you can find it by following these steps:

1. Click the commit above related to your software (eg cassandra*)
2. Find the formula you desire (eg cassandra12.rb)
3. Click "View" for that formula
4. Click "Raw" for the source
5. Copy the URL
6. Run brew install <URL>