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-rw-r--r--Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb32
-rw-r--r--Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb2
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
index f7087ad8b..ac1b37b72 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/install.rb
@@ -98,10 +98,36 @@ module Homebrew
else
ofail e.message
query = query_regexp(e.name)
- ohai "Searching formulae..."
- puts_columns(search_formulae(query))
+
+ ohai "Searching for similarly named formulae..."
+ formulae_search_results = search_formulae(query)
+ case formulae_search_results.length
+ when 0
+ ofail "No similarly named formulae found."
+ when 1
+ puts "This similarly named formula was found:"
+ puts_columns(formulae_search_results)
+ puts "To install it, run:\n brew install #{formulae_search_results.first}"
+ else
+ puts "These similarly named formulae were found:"
+ puts_columns(formulae_search_results)
+ puts "To install one of them, run (for example):\n brew install #{formulae_search_results.first}"
+ end
+
ohai "Searching taps..."
- puts_columns(search_taps(query))
+ taps_search_results = search_taps(query)
+ case taps_search_results.length
+ when 0
+ ofail "No formulae found in taps."
+ when 1
+ puts "This formula was found in a tap:"
+ puts_columns(taps_search_results)
+ puts "To install it, run:\n brew install #{taps_search_results.first}"
+ else
+ puts "These formulae were found in taps:"
+ puts_columns(taps_search_results)
+ puts "To install one of them, run (for example):\n brew install #{taps_search_results.first}"
+ end
# If they haven't updated in 48 hours (172800 seconds), that
# might explain the error
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb b/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb
index 957fc42b9..29cd480d5 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/exceptions.rb
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ class FormulaUnavailableError < RuntimeError
end
def to_s
- "No available formula for #{name} #{dependent_s}"
+ "No available formula with the name \"#{name}\" #{dependent_s}"
end
end