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Homebrew: Permissions Denied Issue Fix (OS X / macOS)
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Homebrew Permissions Denied Issues Solution

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*

@ulises-castro
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Hi, for my case the error was Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /private/tmp/homebrew....

And the solution was

sudo chown $(whoami):admin /private/tmp/

I just updated to MacOs Sonoma 14.5, I do not know if that was the case ...

@keith-sada
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Hi, for my case the error was Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /private/tmp/homebrew....

And the solution was

sudo chown $(whoami):admin /private/tmp/

I just updated to MacOs Sonoma 14.5, I do not know if that was the case ...

This is the [fix] I am looking for.
-Unknown Stormtrooper

Also on Sonoma 14.5, but I think the issue goes back to earlier version of Sonoma for me. I've just been rebooting to clear it, but I like this better.

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