This article will tell you how to get the current macOS used bash version, how to update the bash version to a new version. It will also tell you how to fix the Error: Failed to download resource “bash” and Error: Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core failed! during the new bash version installation.
1. How To Get The Current bash Version.
- Open a terminal and run the command bash –version to get the current bash version.
$ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2. How To Install The Latest bash Version On macOS.
- Run the command brew install bash to install the latest bash version.
$ brew install bash ==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/bash-5.1.4.catalina.bottle.tar.gz Warning: Transient problem: HTTP error Will retry in 1 seconds. 3 retries Warning: left. Warning: Transient problem: HTTP error Will retry in 2 seconds. 2 retries Warning: left. Warning: Transient problem: HTTP error Will retry in 4 seconds. 1 retries Warning: left. -=O=- # # # # curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 502 Bad Gateway Error: Failed to download resource "bash" Download failed: https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/bash-5.1.4.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
- To fix the above issue, you can run the command brew update to update the homebrew.
$ brew update Error: Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-versions failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services failed! Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask failed!
- To fix the above error, you can run the command brew update-reset and then run the command source ~/.bash_profile to activate it.
(base) songs-MacBook-Pro:Downloads songzhao$ brew update-reset ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443 fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Switched to and reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask... remote: Enumerating objects: 426029, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (426029/426029), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (132148/132148), done. remote: Total 422626 (delta 296526), reused 415096 (delta 289105), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (422626/422626), 147.89 MiB | 5.30 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (296526/296526), completed with 2993 local objects. From https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask 6b6d4b75a3..e36481719f master -> origin/master * [new tag] 0.1 -> 0.1 * [new tag] 0.2 -> 0.2 * [new tag] 0.3 -> 0.3 * [new tag] 0.4 -> 0.4 * [new tag] 0.5 -> 0.5 ... * [new tag] v0.7.0 -> v0.7.0 * [new tag] v0.8.0 -> v0.8.0 * [new tag] v0.9.0 -> v0.9.0 * [new tag] v0.9.1 -> v0.9.1 * [new tag] v0.9.2 -> v0.9.2 ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-cask... Checking out files: 100% (4812/4812), done. Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-versions... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-versions/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443 ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/caskroom/homebrew-versions... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions/': LibreSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to github.com:443 fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. ==> Fetching /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services... remote: Enumerating objects: 482, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (482/482), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (357/357), done. remote: Total 482 (delta 208), reused 306 (delta 113), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (482/482), 139.71 KiB | 394.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (208/208), completed with 4 local objects. From https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-services 01ee811..e7d862e master -> origin/master * [new branch] fix/wrapper/timed_in_hash -> origin/fix/wrapper/timed_in_hash fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-services/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Operation timed out ==> Resetting /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services... Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'. Reset branch 'master' Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. - Now you can run the command brew install bash again to install the bash latest version.
$ brew install bash Updating Homebrew... ==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/portable-ruby/portable-ruby/blobs/sha256:0cb1cc7af109437fe0e020c9f3b7b95c3c709b140bde9f991ad2c1433496dd42 ##################################################################################################################################################################### 100.0% ==> Pouring portable-ruby-2.6.8.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz ==> Auto-updated Homebrew! 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- Now run the command bash –version again, you can see that the bash has the latest version.
$ bash --version GNU bash, version 5.1.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0) Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
3. How To Set The Default bash Version.
- Run the command which -a bash to get all the installed bash version lists.
$ which -a bash /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash
- There are 2 bash versions from the above list.
$ /usr/local/bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 5.1.12(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0) Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. (base) songs-MacBook-Pro:Downloads songzhao$ (base) songs-MacBook-Pro:Downloads songzhao$ /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- Run the command cd ~ to go to the user home directory.
- Edit the .bash_profile file, add /usr/local/bin/bash to the PATH environment variable.
PATH="/usr/local/bin/bash:${PATH}" export PATH - Run the command source .bash_profile to activate it.
Thanks! Very helpful….