I'm trying to install some formulas using homebrew but brew doctor tells me that I don't have X11 installed. Since it can't find X11, it's not able to build a bunch of formulas that I need installed. I did download xQuartz and installed it but it seems that homebrew ignores those packages.
Is there a way to set homebrew to use xQuartz and not the built-in (non-installed) X11? I was under the impression that xQuartz is X11. I'm currently downloading XCode 3.2.6 to see if this will solve my problem but it's going to take 5 hours to do so. So I found a (temp) workaround to my problem after googling around. As found on this page: I ended up moving the X11 folder out of /usr and symlinked /opt/X11 to /usr instead. (I believe these folders are from an XQuartz installation) ( $ mv /usr/X11 / $ ln -s /opt/X11 /usr) Homebrew will warn your that XQuartz isn't known to be fully compatible with Homebrew and suggests using Apple's X11 instead.
Which I guess answers my question about whether the two are the same thing. This is still a clunky solution but it will do for now. Behringer v tone bass driver for mac.
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– Mar 25 '12 at 23:02.