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macoshomebrewmacos-high-sierra

Brew stopped working after upgrade (High Sierra)

After upgrading brew, I can't install anymore casks. It gives me a error about xattr:

Error: Failure while executing; `/usr/bin/xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemAlternateNames \(\"chromium\"\) /usr/local/Caskroom/chromium/869663/chromium.wrapper.sh` exited with 1. Here's the output:
  File "/usr/bin/xattr", line 31
    continue
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation
Solution

  • The problem was version of my python and xattr which uses python@3 instead of python@2.

    this will fix the issue for now:

    sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/xattr-2.7 $(which xattr)