Brew + suite-sparse421

Question

I have installed brew on OSX and I have installed successfully several things.

However when I try to install suite-sparse421 (hard constraint on the version):

brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install suite-sparse421

I get the following error:

Error: No available formula with the name "suite-sparse421" 
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

Running brew doctor shows no problem ( Your system is ready to brew. )

Running brew update shows no problem ( Already up-to-date. )

Any idea?

Answer 1

Have a look at this

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-science/blob/master/suite-sparse.rb

Homebrew-science/suite-sparse.rb has updated it url to download the 4.5.3 package, " http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/SuiteSparse/SuiteSparse-4.5.3.tar.gz "

If you want a specific version , why not download and build on your own. The commands to build are pretty self explanatory there in the rb script.

Answer 2

As you can see in the error message there's no formula named suite-sparse421 . There's nothing wrong with your Homebrew installation; it just doesn't exist. See this other SO answer on how to install a previous version of a formula.

Answer 3

In addition to the previous right answers, the formula suite-sparse421 was removed . And all archived versions of SuiteSparse are listed on the official website .