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I had followed Darkoperator’s Metasploit Framework for Mountain Lion Guide back in July of 2012. After doing a ‘brew update && brew upgrade’ the recent stable release of ruby-2.0.0.p0 breaks ‘msfconsole’. A simply way to resolve this is to remove ruby from Homebrew and install RVM for ruby version management.

ruby -v
brew doctor
brew uninstall ruby
brew remove --force ruby

\curl -#L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
source /User/<account name>/.rvm/scripts/rvm
cat ~/.bash_profile

rvm install 1.9.3
rvm --default 1.9.3

rvm list
ruby -v

Line 1 shows the current version of ruby. Run Line 2 to make sure ‘Your system is raring to brew.’ Line 3 uninstalls ruby and Line 4 removes the files from the ‘/usr/local/Cellar/’. Line 6 installs RVM with the latest stable version of Ruby. Line 7 loads RVM into the active shell session as a function (replace <account name> with your user account; if you’re not sure .. use ‘whoami’). Use Line 8 to check that RVM will loads automatically when you open a new terminal, otherwise you will have to run Line 7 each time:

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"

Line 10 installs ruby-1.9.3-p393 and the following line sets the current && default ruby version in the bash prompt to 1.9.3 with the last command verifying the current version of ruby.

Download EasyGUI if you have not done so already. In the directory where you downloaded the .tar file, follow the terminal commands below:

$ tar -xvf easygui_v0.95.tar
$ sudo python setup.py install

The ‘$’ should not be typed within the terminal window, as this refers to the privilege level. You could also copy “easygui.py” to “/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/” directory.  To check if the module is installed within Python type:

Python Code:

>>> import easygui
>>> easygui.msgbox("Hello There!")

or

>>> help()
>>> easygui

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