I get this error when trying to install homebrew:
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/share/zsh: Operation not permitted
chmod: Unable to change file mode on /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions: Operation not permitted
Failed during: /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod 755 /usr/local/share/zsh /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
(macos 10.15.7)
Give this a try:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
Also, brew doctor would help you with your brew usage.
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Like it is mentioned here https://docs.brew.sh/FAQ#how-do-i-uninstall-homebrew I typed
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)" but it doesn't seem to work...
When I type afterwards which brew it returns /usr/local/bin/brew
and when I type again /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
It displays :
/bin/bash: line 236: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew: No such file or directory
Failed to locate Homebrew!
So I don't know what to do to uninstall brew.
My ultimate goal is to not getting this error when I try to install a brew package :
Error: Cannot install in Homebrew on ARM processor in Intel default
prefix (/usr/local)! Please create a new installation in /opt/homebrew
using one of the "Alternative Installs" from:
https://docs.brew.sh/Installation You can migrate your previously
installed formula list with: brew bundle dump
I now have a Mac with Apple Silicon but I used to have a Intel Mac.
EDIT 1 : I took a quick look at the uninstall.sh script here https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh
It seems that my problem is induced by my os installation because I did it from an Intel-based MacOS time machine backup. The problem is the uninstall.sh script is programed to uninstall homebrew according to the current os. So this script can only uninstall the ARM homebrew that I need and can't uninstall the Intel homebrew I try to get rid of...
Maybe I should try to just change the line of code that detect I have a ARM CPU to make the script think I have a Intel-based Mac but I don't know if it could bring chaos in my computer...
I'm surprised there's not a lot of answers about this problem since I don't think I'm the only one to have switched from Intel-based Mac to ARM-based Mac with Time Machine.
EDIT 2 : I tried to uninstall Homebrew with a command of my own arch -x86_64 ./uninstall_brew.sh (I have no idea if it's not DANGEROUS) but I don't know if it worked well...
Here is the output of the command :
user#MacBook-Pro % arch -x86_64 ./uninstall_brew.sh
Warning: This script will remove:
/Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/
/usr/local/Caskroom/
/usr/local/Cellar/
/usr/local/bin/brew -> /usr/local/bin/brew
Are you sure you want to uninstall Homebrew? This will remove your installed packages! [y/N] y
==> Removing Homebrew installation...
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
/usr/local/share/info/dir: Permission denied
Warning: Failed to delete /usr/local/Caskroom
rm: /usr/local/Caskroom: Permission denied
Warning: Failed to delete /usr/local/Cellar
rm: /usr/local/Cellar: Permission denied
==> Removing empty directories...
Password:
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/opt /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/var /usr/local/Caskroom /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/Homebrew /usr/local/Frameworks -name .DS_Store -delete
==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/local/bin /usr/local/etc /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib /usr/local/opt /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/local/var /usr/local/Caskroom /usr/local/Cellar /usr/local/Homebrew /usr/local/Frameworks -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} ;
==> Homebrew uninstalled!
The following possible Homebrew files were not deleted:
/usr/local/.com.apple.installer.keep
/usr/local/Frameworks/
/usr/local/Homebrew/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/local/etc/
/usr/local/git/
/usr/local/include/
/usr/local/lib/
/usr/local/man/
/usr/local/opt/
/usr/local/remotedesktop/
/usr/local/sbin/
/usr/local/share/
/usr/local/var/
You may wish to remove them yourself.
Try running: PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"
Found the answer here: https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/3437
I encounter similar issue on my M1 MBP, and I found that changing the uninstall path in the script may work.
First, I download a local copy of the uninstalling script
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh
Then run the script locally and set the path to /user/local(which is the default path of homebrew on intel Mac)
/bin/bash uninstall.sh --path=/usr/local
but it completed with 2 warnings I'm not sure what they are
Warning: Failed during: /usr/bin/sudo rmdir /usr/local
Warning: Homebrew partially uninstalled (but there were steps that failed)!
To finish uninstalling rerun this script with `sudo`.
The following possible Homebrew files were not deleted:
/usr/local/Cellar/
/usr/local/Frameworks/
/usr/local/Homebrew/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/local/etc/
/usr/local/include/
/usr/local/lib/
/usr/local/opt/
/usr/local/sbin/
/usr/local/share/
/usr/local/texlive/
/usr/local/var/
You may wish to remove them yourself.
Either way, I delete those files manually.
(This is my first time to answer something on stack overflow. Hope this help!)
On installation of homebrew I am presented with this error, could someone please explain what is happening and the solution?
==> This script will install:
/usr/local/bin/brew
/usr/local/share/doc/homebrew
/usr/local/share/man/man1/brew.1
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/brew
/usr/local/Homebrew
Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...
fatal: cannot copy '/usr/local/Cellar/git/2.19.1/share/git-core/templates/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample' to '/usr/local/Homebrew/.git/hooks/fsmonitor-watchman.sample':
Permission denied
Failed during: git init -q
You have to give Homebrew the right to write inside /usr/local. To do this the official command to run is:
cd /usr/local && sudo chown -R $(whoami) bin etc include lib sbin share var opt Cellar Caskroom Frameworks
Read the official troubleshooting page of Homebrew for details.
If you have not installed applications in /usr/local that rely on specific permissions, you can also run:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/*
After Appium did not recognize uid, I tried installing it with this command:
brew install libimobiledevice --HEAD
That gave me the following error:
Error: /usr/local/Homebrew is not writable. You should change the
ownership and permissions of /usr/local/Homebrew back to your
user account:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Homebrew
Error: Permission denied # rb_sysopen - >
/usr/local/var/homebrew/locks/libimobiledevice.formula.lock
So, i copypastad and ran that chown command. It does not complain and seems to run. But, when I run the first command again, I still get the same error message.
Could someone help me resolve this?
edit:
I ran this command:
ls -ld /usr/local/Homebrew
This was the output:
drwxr-xr-x 17 1791192515 wheel 544 Mar 2 12:08 /usr/local/Homebrew
I ran this command:
ls -l /usr/local/var/homebrew/locks/libimobiledevice.formula.lock
This was the output:
No such file or directory
these are the steps I took to solve this problem
sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local
then:
sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /Library/Caches/Homebrew
then:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Before trying again to run:
brew install libimobiledevice --HEAD
I have been trying to upgrade my brew installation on Mac and it always fails with the following error:
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/Frameworks
Error: Permission denied # dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/Frameworks
I do not want to run brew as sudo, but is there a way to fix this error? I'm not able to install Python3 which is my ultimate goal. Is there another way to install Pythion3 on Mc other than brew? Is there any resolution for this problem here?
EDIT: I tried to remove python3 and tried to re install it again and this time it fails with some other message:
==> Pouring python-3.6.5.high_sierra.bottle.1.tar.gz
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/Frameworks
Error: Permission denied # dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/Frameworks
Try to change owner of /usr/local.
if you use macOS High Sierra or higher try this command:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
if you use macOS Sierra or lower:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
In Mac OSX Mojave, installing Python3, I solved this issue by the following:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/Frameworks
sudo chown -R user:group /usr/local/Frameworks/
brew link python
Where user and group are specified as set by the OS. You can find out what user/group values should be by doing:
ls -al /usr/local
And then python3 was successfully installed:
> python3
Python 3.7.2 (default, Feb 12 2019, 08:15:36)
[.Clang 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)] on darwin
I am on a mac os high sierra, and typing to install watchman
Kishores-MacBook-Pro:~ kishore$ brew install watchman
Error: Could not create /usr/local/Cellar
Check you have permission to write to /usr/local
Kishores-MacBook-Pro:~ kishore$ sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
chown: /usr/local: Operation not permitted
Kishores-MacBook-Pro:~ kishore$