Homebrew PHP appears not to be linked. - Valet

Question

I had a problem which appeared all of the sudden saying: Unable to determine linked PHP. which I could not solve so I uninstalled valet, php and dependencies. Then I installed fresh php7.1 but when I run valet install I get quiet slightly similar error: Homebrew PHP appears not to be linked.

Possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37178743/laravel-valet-linked-php-error — Valentin Knyazev, Apr 30 '19 at 09:06
@ValentinKnyazev there is plenty of topics about question you posted. It is not my case — Epsilon47, Apr 30 '19 at 09:11
Homebrew can't find the correct PHP version, have you linked them up properly? brew link php71 — Wouter Van Damme, Apr 30 '19 at 09:49
@WouterVanDamme thank you. That was it. I tried it dozen times before but it did not have effect, now it did :D It was never needed to link it explicitly — Epsilon47, Apr 30 '19 at 10:18

score 37 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 28 '19 at 10:01

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First, find the PHP version installed via.

brew list

In my case it was php@7.3, then

brew link php@7.3 --force --overwrite

and finally

valet install

:)

answered Dec 28 '19 at 10:01

zarpio

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score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '19 at 10:45

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Homebrew can't find the correct PHP version, have you linked them up properly?

brew link php71

answered Apr 30 '19 at 10:45

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '19 at 03:54

brew link php@7.2 --force --overwrite

That will push this--

If you need to have this software first in your PATH instead consider running: echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/php@7.2/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

I ran both independently then tried valet install (worked like a charm).

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 12 '19 at 10:34

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brew install php@7.1

then link it

brew link php@7.1 --force --overwrite

answered Oct 12 '19 at 10:34

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Apr 13 '21 at 08:44

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$ brew unlink php && brew link --force php@7.1

edited Apr 13 '21 at 08:44

Syscall

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answered Apr 13 '21 at 08:26

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Please, add an explanation. See [how to answer](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-answer). – Syscall Apr 13 '21 at 08:43

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 24 '23 at 17:58

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If you are coming here following a migration from Intel to M1 and having Valet not use the php cask from the /opt/ folder, this did the trick for me:

echo "export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.zshrc.

answered Jan 24 '23 at 17:58

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