Homebrew install issues

Question

I am having some trouble with brew installs. So I have done the following:

Uninstalled homebrew with:

$ rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/.git && brew cleanup

Reinstalled homebrew with:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"

$ brew update

Already up-to-date.

$ brew doctor

Your system is raring to brew.

Try running any install & I get the following output:

$ brew install node

Error: Permission denied - /Library/Caches/Homebrew/Formula/node.brewing

What is going on here? This is also giving me issues with using npm and yeoman which I'd really like to use :(

@lenybernard I understand the install script location may have changed, but the proper response here is a comment, not an edit of the original question. — Hooked, Nov 22 '13 at 17:41

score 20 · Accepted Answer · edited May 27 '15 at 22:01

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Did you perhaps install brew with an other user, or with sudo previously?

Check the permissions of /Library/Caches/Homebrew, and force it to be writable for your user, by either changing its owner, or its permissions.

You might also try to uninstall with something like https://gist.github.com/1173223 and try the install again.

edited May 27 '15 at 22:01

answered Jan 31 '13 at 01:34

Pascal Belloncle

/Library/Cashes/Homebrew has me listed as the owner. It has the following as my permissions: 'drwxrwxrwx'. About to try the gist. – Karoh Jan 31 '13 at 01:55
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also check all the way down to node.brewing. maybe you used `sudo brew install node` before? – Pascal Belloncle Jan 31 '13 at 02:05
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Fantastic, just had to "chown -R". Thanks! – Karoh Jan 31 '13 at 02:33
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`sudo chown -R \`whoami\` /Library/Caches/Homebrew/` – vaughan Apr 06 '13 at 12:11
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You might also need `sudo chown -R root /usr/local/bin/brew`. – vaughan Apr 06 '13 at 12:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 21 '15 at 15:43

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This thing told me to tell you to update that install command to

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

answered Jan 21 '15 at 15:43

mochabcha

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