After installing the Big Sir 11.0 update I attempted to install graphviz to use with a tool that will map dependecies in node.js projects. The output looked like this:
❯ brew install graphviz
Updating Homebrew...
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Error: Failed to link all completions, docs and manpages:
Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/share
Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/share
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==> Installing dependencies for graphviz: freetype, fontconfig, libtiff, gd, python@3.9, glib, jasper, netpbm, gts, lzo, pixman, cairo, fribidi, gobject-introspection, graphite2, harfbuzz and pango
==> Installing graphviz dependency: freetype
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Error: An unexpected error occurred during the `brew link` step
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/share
Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/shareThe error plainly says, Error: Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/share. Don't spend time fussing with the @ in the message, the issue is that Homebrew did not have the correct permissions to create usr/local/share.
Before I tell you how I fixed it, let me caution you on just fucking willy nilly copying and pasting shit into the terminal. Save yourself the headaches and just don't do that.
- navigate to
/usr/local/ - You probably have seen people say doing this
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/localis fine, but that is a horrible idea. Why give homebrew all that access when the error tells us that what it wanted was to create and put things in/usr/local/share? So instead of that 💩 from above do asudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/shareand if the directory does not exist, then type:sudo mkdir share/from within/usr/local/
Cheers, DH