can't chown /usr/local for homebrew in Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra
The problem kept occurring... after digging deeper I found that only uninstalling Homebrew and then re-installing it solved this issue.
Uninstalling will remove all your brew packages, you can save the output of brew list
in a file first, to have a record of what packages were installed.
Uninstall Homebrew:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)"
Then re-install it:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Unfortunately you can no longer chown /usr/local
in High Sierra. A workaround is to sudo mkdir /usr/local/include
and /usr/local/Frameworks
if they don't exist, and
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
Thanks to ilovezfs for this simple workaround and for the amazing homebrew!
You can not change permission for /usr/local
itself , but you can change the right permission for folders underneath , so this fixed the
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/*