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Fixing Homebrew "Permission denied" issues

Dominik Schöler
September 19, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

When installing your first formula, Homebrew may complain about not being able to access certain directories. The easiest solution to this is:

chown <username> /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/share # create these directories if they do not exist
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Then sudo brew install abc and you're going.

Posted by Dominik Schöler to makandra dev (2011-09-19 17:43)