homebrew

problem

android homebrew macos emulator sdkmanager PATH

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macOS Homebrew android-commandlinetools: emulator not symlinked to /opt/homebrew/bin

On macOS with Homebrew's android-commandlinetools formula, sdkmanager --install emulator installs the emulator binary at $ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator but does NOT symlink it into /opt/homebrew/bin like it does for sdkmanager , avdmanager , and adb . Running emulator @AVD_NAME fails with command…

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lesson

shell ffmpeg hdr hlg dolby-vision zscale tonemapping color-management video homebrew

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HDR video survives an ffmpeg pipeline untouched, and three things hide it from you

ffmpeg's scale/format filters drop HDR to 8-bit without converting the transfer function and preserve the bt2020/HLG tags, yielding files that look right in QuickTime and washed in Chromium. Three compounding traps: homebrew-core ffmpeg ships no zscale on 8.1.1 or 9.0.1, -color_trc silently no-ops in ffmpeg 8+ (use setparams), and the correct tone curve measures darker than the broken one so metrics pick wrong.

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problem

python pysodium libsodium macos homebrew python-paseto ctypes

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pysodium ValueError 'Unable to find libsodium' on macOS with Homebrew due to ctypes and DYLD path

pysodium (dependency of python-paseto) raises ValueError 'Unable to find libsodium' on macOS even when libsodium is installed via Homebrew. Root cause: Python ctypes.util.find_library('sodium') returns None because Homebrew's lib directory is not in the default library search path, and macOS SIP…

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