brew cask install <app> - Staged installation

[ladislas]

Hi there! :)

I'm kinda reopening @dschinkel's issue #9974 about the staged installation.

I've been having this issue for the last 10 casks I've been trying to install. Most notorious are Mailbox App, Skype, Sublime-Text and Spotify.

Here after are screenshots of the Mailbox installation. For every app it's the same, the message says the installation stagged and when I cd to the app folder, I find a symlink of the Applications folder.

This happens on a brand new Macbook Pro, brew doctor says that everything is fine.

And here is the output of brew cask doctor: https://gist.github.com/ladislas/097d87cbe98b7b33dd19

[tapeinosyne]

Everything appears to be working normally, but there may be some confusion about what “staging” and “installation” mean in homebrew-cask.

The staging process merely extracts the contents of a package as downloaded. Many dmg packages include an /Applications symlink for ease of manual installation, causing it to appear in the staging location.

Besides staging, brew cask install symlinks the desired artifacts (in this case, Mailbox (Beta).app) to your application folder, /Applications.

[ladislas]

so if I understand correctly, the the last message with the beer means that everything went well?

[vitorgalvao]

the last message with the beer means that everything went well?

Yes.

Just a clarification, though. The symlinks will, by default, be placed in ~/Applications. To set them in /Applications you need to set the —appdir option. This will be reversed in the future.

Closing as solved.

[ladislas]

Okay thank you very much! :)

Yes, I know about the --appdir option and I'm using it. Great to see it will become the default behavior.