Error: homebrew/science was deprecated. What should I do?

Question

I got the following error when I tried to brew tap homebrew/science: "Error: homebrew/science was deprecated. This tap is now empty as all its formulae were migrated." HOWEVER, there are no explicit instructions on what to do. All it's formulae were migrated to ____?

I am not new to science, but I am quite new to homebrew.

What should I do?. I was going to use this to track the formulae for installation of opencv among other things. I don't understand why something like homebrew/science would be depreciated or no longer relevant.

Answer 1

A quick solution is to use these command instead: brew tap brewsci/bio brew tap brewsci/science Please see this Github Issue for reference.

Answer 2

Most formulae were migrated to the core repository, so they will be available without "tapping science".

So, if you want package XYZ, just do:

brew search XYZ

and you should find it.

Answer 3

If you cannot find your package by brew search <package name>, you can give it a try to get it directly from the homebrew core.

Example:

brew install homebrew/science/hdf5 

failed because homebrew/science was deprecated.

Solution:

brew install homebrew/core/hdf5

worked!