Installing ifuse with Homebrew results in ERROR message

Question

I am just starting to install these binaries to access my iPhone and running into an error when trying to install ifuse.

I installed osxfuse v 3.11.2 using Homebrew first. I have two versions loaded in System Preferences:

FUSE 3.11.2 and macFuse 4.1.0

I also installed fuse osx 1.9.0

The error I am receiving is:

Error: ifuse has been disabled because it requires FUSE!

Sun Apr 18 05:18:54
iMac191:Homebrew john$ brew install fuse
==> Downloading https://github.com/fuse-open/fuse-studio/releases/download/1.9.0/fuse_osx_1_9_0.pkg
==> Downloading from https://github-releases.githubusercontent.com/133309840/5134f00e-6266-11e8-93cc-f1c5a91a10eb?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIW
######################################################################## 100.0%0
==> Installing Cask fuse
==> Running installer for fuse; your password may be necessary.
Package installers may write to any location; options such as `--appdir` are ignored.
Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:
installer: Package name is Fuse
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
🍺  fuse was successfully installed!


Sun Apr 18 09:33:33
iMac191:Homebrew john$ brew info fuse
fuse: 1.9.0
https://fuse-open.github.io/
/usr/local/Caskroom/fuse/1.9.0 (156.0MB)
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/HEAD/Casks/fuse.rb
==> Names
Fuse Studio
Fuse Open
Fuse Fusetools
==> Description
Visual desktop tool suite for working with the Fuse framework
==> Artifacts
fuse_osx_1_9_0.pkg (Pkg)
==> Analytics
install: 1,029 (30 days), 1,703 (90 days), 3,605 (365 days)

Answer 1

as per TBR & dcmorse's advice, but just spelling it out further...

1. make sure you have osx/macFUSE installed (if not -- $ brew install macfuse)
2. get formula location: $ brew formula $PACKAGE_OF_INTEREST
3. open formula in editor-of-choice (e.g. $ vi $( brew formula $PACKAGE_OF_INTEREST )) and comment out the section containing disable

in my case, that means changing to:

  # on_macos do                                                                 
  #   disable! date: "2021-04-08", because: "requires FUSE"                     
  # end

4. install as usual: $ brew install $PACKAGE_OF_INTEREST

Answer 2

osxfuse was removed from homebrew/core recently:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/issues/94072

As a result all formulas depending on it have been disabled.

My current understanding is that you'd have to either use a non-core formula or download the formula locally and remove the disable line.

Sorry for not having a more satisfying answer. I just ran into this myself with sshfs and installed packages from outside of homebrew.