Update fabric to latest not working?

[alissonaguiar]

Hi, guys. Trying to update to the latest and it is not working. Ideas? It should show 1.4.174

➜ ~ go install github.com/danielmiessler/fabric@latest
➜ ~
➜ ~ fabric --version
v1.4.165
➜ ~ fabric -U
Downloading patterns and Populating /Users/alisson/.config/fabric/patterns...

➜ ~ fabric --version
v1.4.165
➜ ~ which fabric-ai
/opt/homebrew/bin/fabric-ai

[bledburn]

Hi, guys. Trying to update to the latest and it is not working. Ideas? It should show 1.4.174

➜ ~ go install github.com/danielmiessler/fabric@latest ➜ ~ ➜ ~ fabric --version v1.4.165 ➜ ~ fabric -U Downloading patterns and Populating /Users/alisson/.config/fabric/patterns...

➜ ~ fabric --version v1.4.165 ➜ ~ which fabric-ai /opt/homebrew/bin/fabric-ai

If you are using go install to get a binary installed on your system, it will most likely drop that binary in ~/go/bin and is almost certainly will not drop it into the homebrew package manager

Your search which fabric-ai brought up opt/homebrew/bin/fabric-ai for a few reasons:

1. fabric-ai is the package name in homebrew/linuxbrew to get the fabric tool
2. running which fabric instead of which fabric-ai might yield different results
3. which fabric might not return anything if ~/go/bin is not in your PATH

If that all makes sense to you, then you should be able to clear things up.
If that confuses you even more, then you likely are confused about the various ways you can possible install fabric, and have likely mixed them up over time. There are some quick videos to watch, that clear all of this up very fast:

Installing Fabric (fabric) with Go: https://youtu.be/_QMYQtYUpys

Installing Fabric (fabric-ai) with Homebrew: https://youtu.be/hMaPGbitMww

Hope that helps.

Also, if you have multiple versions of fabric installed via different installation methods, you should clean that up so as to not have any weird/unintentional side effects.

Fabric can be installed a few ways:
-download prebuilt binary, leave in user-home folder, and create an alias in order to use normally

-download prebuilt binary, and move the binary to a folder in your system's PATH

-install the binary with go install and go (should) by default drop that in the "go-bin" (~/go/bin)
-you must then make sure that your "go-bin" is added to your system's PATH
-or you must alias the fabric tool at that location

-install the correct binary using the Homebrew package manager
-this installs Fabric as fabric-ai and you must create an alias to use it normally (alias fabric='fabric-ai' # in your aliases file)

Everything "clear as mud?" lol I hope that helps more than it hurts.