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Hi, I'm trying to tget cadabra2 installed on my Mac on Monterey with homebrew, but it stops at 83% with no error messages. Here is the end of the output I get:

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Do not report this issue to Homebrew/brew or Homebrew/core!

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Are you sure you are not running out of disk space?

Yes, megasure. I have more than 270 Gb disk space available and 128Gb RAM. I tried once more, but same result.

1 Answer

+1 vote

This turned out to be a compatibility issue with the recently released Python 3.11. I have updated Cadabra to 2.4.2.4 which contains a fix for this, and have also updated the Homebrew tap so that brew install cadabra2 uses this latest version. This now works on my mac, please let me know if there are any remaining issues.

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