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I just upgraded to macOS Sierra and installed brew to get some packages. Previously I used LFTP to sync files from a remote server more quickly. However, after upgrading to Sierra, brew can no longer install LFTP. After using

brew install lftp

I get the following output and error

Checking out v1.0.1 in /usr/local/Homebrew...
To checkout v1.0.1 in /usr/local/Homebrew run:
  'cd /usr/local/Homebrew && git checkout v1.0.1
Error: No available formula with the name "lftp" 
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
This similarly named formula was found:
homebrew/x11/curlftpfs ✔
To install it, run:
  brew install homebrew/x11/curlftpfs ✔
==> Searching taps...
Error: No formulae found in taps.

I believe it cannot find the formula... but I'm not sure why. Anyone know of a solution?

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It looks like lftp was moved to the boneyard. I still have it installed and it was found in homebrew/boneyard/lftp. Not sure why that happened though. I don't think it's a macOS Sierra related problem, just unfortunate timing.

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    It was moved to the boneyard apparently because of build breakage around openssl and unenthusiastic upstream support for MacOS. Which is a shame because it's a nice tool.
    – poolie
    Commented Sep 25, 2016 at 16:39
  • Thanks for clarifying the reason it was moved @poolie :)
    – Sebastian
    Commented Sep 27, 2016 at 7:56
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    This was it. Thanks for the input. You have to install from the boneyard with brew install homebrew/boneyard/lftp. I thought I already replied to this thread but apparently it didn't register my reply a few days back.
    – sirryankennedy
    Commented Sep 28, 2016 at 20:25
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    It's back up in the boneyard. I just installed it today.
    – raidfive
    Commented Oct 16, 2016 at 19:54
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    I get an error: curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
    – rudyryk
    Commented Nov 1, 2016 at 7:53
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There's a patch now. lftp is back again and moved from boneyard to mainstream: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/2c0e087580bafde50c916ad304ffb2079f593b7e

A simple brew install lftp will work again.

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one solution, if you're ok with using the latest stable release as of this writing, is to install lftp (4.6.6) from the boneyard:

brew install homebrew/boneyard/lftp

as @Sebastian and @poolie pointed out, lftp has been moved to the boneyard.

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