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danielcompton 2026-01-07T18:28:53.051059Z
On https://github.com/clojure/homebrew-tools, I think the order of uninstalling and installing clojure from Homebrew core should be changed
$ brew install clojure/tools/clojure
brew upgrade clojure/tools/clojure
brew uninstall clojure
✔︎ JSON API formula.jws.json Downloaded 32.0MB/ 32.0MB
✔︎ JSON API cask.jws.json Downloaded 15.3MB/ 15.3MB
Error: clojure was installed from the homebrew/core tap
but you are trying to install it from the clojure/tools tap.
Formulae with the same name from different taps cannot be installed at the same time.
To install this version, you must first uninstall the existing formula:
brew uninstall clojure
Then you can install the desired version:
brew install clojure/tools/clojure
Warning: clojure/tools/clojure 1.12.1.1550 already installed
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/clojure/1.12.1.1550... (14 files, 17.3MB)
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T18:48:30.938789Z
that's not a list of steps, that's a list of commands. if you already have it installed, you should use brew upgrade
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T19:11:41.639499Z
the main instructions for clj install are at https://clojure.org/guides/install_clojure. this page is really just a short overview of the tap (which most people never look at). I'm curious to know your path to how you ended up here
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T19:14:25.913579Z
I updated the tap page to clarify that these are separate commands, not installation steps
danielcompton 2026-01-07T20:10:39.600289Z
Oh right, I thought it was to migrate away from homebrew-core’s version to the Clojure tap. I was looking at it because I was trying to install old versions of clojure to track down a bug we had when we upgraded to the latest version
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T20:22:16.505049Z
well, if there's a bug, let me know!
danielcompton 2026-01-07T20:23:10.362009Z
Will do, I suspect it might be because we were upgrading from 1.10.3.1029 which is quite old and there was some change we didn’t account for. Although the issue manifested when running in production, not during the build. Anyway, not sure yet but I’ll let you know what I find 🙂
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T20:23:50.194819Z
ok, certainly lots of changes since then
Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-01-07T20:24:16.257059Z
https://clojure.org/releases/tools is probably the best combined changelog to review