brew cask info gives Not installed for some installed casks (chefdk, vagrant, virtualbox)

[dserodio]

Some apps are listed with brew cask list, but brew cask info $app shows Not installed. I have read "brew cask list shows wrong information" but AFAIK, my problem is with cask info.

$ brew cask list
betterzipql  chefdk   java         soundcleod   vagrant  virtualbox   xquartz

However:

$ for app in chefdk vagrant virtualbox; do; echo ---- $app ----; brew cask info $app; done
---- chefdk ----
chefdk: 0.16.28-1
Chef Development Kit, ChefDK
https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/
Not installed
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/chefdk.rb
==> Contents
  chefdk-0.16.28-1.pkg (pkg)
---- vagrant ----
vagrant: 1.8.5
Vagrant
https://www.vagrantup.com/
Not installed
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/vagrant.rb
==> Contents
  Vagrant.pkg (pkg)
---- virtualbox ----
virtualbox: 5.1.2-108956
Oracle VirtualBox
https://www.virtualbox.org
Not installed
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/virtualbox.rb
==> Contents
  VirtualBox.pkg (pkg)

[wojciech-milewski]

It also happens to me, but with different apps:
crashplan, java, tunnelblick.

I also found that brew cask is unable to update applications. I think that cask has in repository newer versions and, if we have older one installed, it states that it is not installed, so it can't update it.

As an example: I have installed java using brew cask, version 1.8.0_92-b14.
Now, output of brew cask info java:

java: 1.8.0_102-b14
Java Standard Edition Development Kit
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
Not installed
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/java.rb
==> Contents
  JDK 8 Update 102.pkg (pkg)

On the contrary, as VLC seems OK:

~ brew cask info vlc
vlc: 2.2.4
VLC media player
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
/usr/local/Caskroom/vlc/2.2.4 (10 files, 252K)
https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/vlc.rb
==> Contents
  VLC.app (app)
  /usr/local/Caskroom/vlc/2.2.4/vlcwrapper (binary)

[reitermarkus]

Yes, this is a known problem when there is a newer version in the repo than is installed.

Hopefully most of it will be fixed in #23328. But this is still very much a work in progress.

[adidalal]

FYI, the not-really-a-fix solution is brew cask uninstall {{cask_name}} --force && brew update && brew cask install {{cask_name}}, but follow #23328 for updates.

[wickles]

Still errors a la #23762 after updated with latest merge. Should that have been fixed too?

[reitermarkus]

@wickles, could you please create a separate issue with your output?

[wickles]

it's AFAIK exactly the same as the other issue, so I'll just move conversation over there.