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Resolving Permission Errors - /usr/local and ~/.local
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When getting up and running with a new machine I often run into this issue and completely forget why on earth it's happening. This StackOverflow post gives the overview of the issue and solution.

Essentially on a default installation this folder is owned by root and missing the appropriate permissions for your user. So the commands in usr/local/bin only work when used with sudo. To resolve this we can take ownership of /usr/local by running the following:

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.local

That second command is helpful for npm packages making use of the .local folder.

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