My wild bet is that this issue is somehow related to my base osx ruby setup... but as I'm not a ruby-ite, i need some guidance to discover more.
A couple days ago i tried to install a brew cask formula (several others were already installed previously). A couple weeks ago i upgraded to OSX Sierra.
Brew itself works perfectly, brew cask does not.
I get an "unexpected" error when I type brew cask by itself or with any subcommand:
Error: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for ruby/st.h... yes
checking for st.h... yes
checking for rb_str_replace() in ruby.h... yes
creating Makefile
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/mkmf.rb:2125:in `initialize': Permission denied - Makefile (Errno::EACCES)
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/mkmf.rb:2125:in `open'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/lib/ruby/2.0.0/mkmf.rb:2125:in `create_makefile'
from extconf.rb:24:in `<main>'
extconf failed, exit code 1
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/msgpack-0.5.8 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/extensions/universal-darwin-16/2.0.0/msgpack-0.5.8/gem_make.out
I've looked through many questions and tried many of the answers given, all to no avail.
Questions:
Homebrew cask option not recognized?
Failed to build gem native extension (installing Compass)
homebrew not working on OSX Can't install Brew
formulae correctly (Permission denied in /usr/local/lib)
OsX, can't use Homebrew because of Ruby permission
Attempts:
> xcode-select --install
xcode-select: error: command line tools are already installed, use "Software Update" to install updates
> brew install ruby
Warning: ruby-2.4.0 already installed
> ls -l /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 238 2017-01-12 12:12:13 2.0
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 2017-01-09 09:47:51 Current -> 2.0
> sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local
> sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local
> brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
> brew cask [list|cleanup|update|etc]
(gives error shown above)
Performed a complete homebrew uninstall, rm'ing extra dirs and files. Then complete homebrew re-install, followed by re-install many of the formulae I had previously.
Same commands above give same errors after reinstall.
Color me confused. 😕
So I just resolved something similar - it was a permissions issue for me. I ended up running:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) your-directory-here
on the Cask and caskroom directories - you may have to look around a little bit to find those directories on your system.
Related
Unable to install ruby-filemagic 0.7.1 on Mac even though libmagic has been installed.
The error is like :
checking for main() in -lgnurx... no
checking for magic_open() in -lmagic... no
*** ERROR: missing required library to compile this module
* extconf.rb failed *
Almost all answers fo ruby-filemagic installation are the brew install libmagic. However, it doesn't work.
In my case, on Monterey 12.0.1 helped this:
brew unlink libmagic && brew link libmagic
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/* - in case you have Error: Permission denied # rb_sysopen
gem install ruby-filemagic -v '0.7.2' --source 'https://rubygems.org/' -- --with-magic-include=/opt/homebrew/include --with-magic-lib=/opt/homebrew/lib/
A few hours were cost before I found the problem. Let me write down the cause and solution here :
cause:
my ruby ($HOME/.rbenv/versions/x.x.x/bin/ruby) was under the control of rbenv, however my bundler was controlled by old ruby (/usr/local/ruby) .
The stupid bundler could not find the library for installing ruby_filemagic and wasted so much time.
solution:
$ rbenv exec gem install bundler
$ rbenv rehash
make bundler, gem, ruby under the same management.
Sorry for my poor English. I hope this may help more people.
Using Mac OSX 10.10.4 on 13' Macbook Air
Typed in 'brew update' like the Mongo docs said and it updated
Then typed 'brew install mongodb' and it took ages to say
Error: Permission denied - (mongod.conf, /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf)
This is what the console said leading up to that point, in case this helps:
Joshuas-Air:~ Josh$ brew install mongodb
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/mongodb-3.0.4.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring mongodb-3.0.4.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
Warning: Bottle installation failed: building from source.
==> Installing mongodb dependency: scons
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/scons-2.3.5.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring scons-2.3.5.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/scons/2.3.5: 208 files, 2.4M
==> Downloading https://fastdl.mongodb.org/src/mongodb-src-r3.0.4.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Cloning https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-tools.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/mongodb--github.com-mongodb-mongo-tools--git
==> Checking out tag r3.0.4
==> ./build.sh
==> /usr/local/opt/scons/bin/scons install --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.0.4 -j4 --osx-version-min=10.10 --cc=/usr/bin/clang --cxx=/usr/bin/clang++ --use-new-tools
Error: Permission denied - (mongod.conf, /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf)
Joshuas-Air:~ Josh$
Any help at all would be appreciated.
I had mostly the same error. I could not solve the problem by chown'ing the /usr/local directories as the prompts suggest possibly due to my upgrade to High Sierra. I was able to succeed installing mongodb by reinstalling homebrew using the following command:
$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
This allowed my subsequent brew install mongodb to work.
I had the same problem, changing the directory permissions didn't work for me so eventually I've found this solution:
Download the most recent version (.tgz).
Open the terminal and head to the ~/Downloads folder or wherever you saved the file.
Untar: tar xvf filename.tgz.
Enter the directory and go to the bin directory.
At the terminal use the sudo bash (become root) command.
Now enter the command cp * /usr/local/bin.
Create /data/db directories (optional, this is the default location MongoDB uses).
At the terminal use the command exit to exit root user.
which mongo should now respond with /usr/local/bin and you are all set to go.
My guess is that the permissions on the folder /usr/local/ are not set 755 or 777.
You can change the permissions or simply try to run the command as root:
sudo brew install mongodb
Hi I just tried installing git via homebrew on my mac - something is wrong. I had the github for mac app installed, but I tried removing that. The current git version in my system is:
Nielsk#~: $ git --version
git version 1.9.3 (Apple Git-50)
This is what happens if I try to install git via homebrew:
Nielsk#~: $ brew install git
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/git-2.1.3.y
######################################################################## 100,0%
==> Pouring git-2.1.3.yosemite.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
The OS X keychain credential helper has been installed to:
/usr/local/bin/git-credential-osxkeychain
The 'contrib' directory has been installed to:
/usr/local/share/git-core/contrib
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
zsh completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions
Error: An unexpected error occurred during the `brew link` step
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2
Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2
How can I solve this?
I also met the same issue. I think we should change the readable permission to make sure any of the directories is readable by "all". So I tried the command: sudo chown -R $USER:admin /usr/local
and then: brew link --overwrite git It works for me, hope it will also work for you.
From High Sierra, chown of /usr/local is not allowed. However you can still change permission the sub directories in /usr/local.
In my case, I had to create Frameworks in /usr/local and sudo chown -R $(whom) Frameworks. After that follow what brew doctor says.
The better way is to create subdirectory whatever you need and run
sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*
For those with the new El Capitan OS, you'll need to update your permissions:
Open Terminal and type the following commands:
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local
$ brew doctor
$ brew update
$ brew link --overwrite git
The above solution will work for other brew installs like node, etc. Just replace the last line if you started the installation but encountered errors during the brew installation.
I had a similar permission denied error on install of git until I cleaned things up:
$brew doctor
..... << long output of issues, so you run:
$brew prune
$brew doctor
..... << less issues now, so manually clean up
$brew update
$brew install git
Does that address your error as well?
I did what brew doctor recommended and it helped:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/sbin
MacOS 10.14.4
I have been trying to install ruby 2.1.1 but when I run it in the terminal, this is what i get:
$rbenv install 2.1.1
Downloading yaml-0.1.6.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/5fe00cda18ca5daeb43762b80c38e06e
Installing yaml-0.1.6...
Installed yaml-0.1.6 to /Users/nthulanemakgato/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1
Downloading ruby-2.1.1.tar.gz...
-> http://dqw8nmjcqpjn7.cloudfront.net/e57fdbb8ed56e70c43f39c79da1654b2
Installing ruby-2.1.1...
BUILD FAILED
Inspect or clean up the working tree at /var/folders/tj/_bd6whds6lb7wtn2m8ylwx7h0000gp/T/ruby-build.20140427221824.34053
Results logged to /var/folders/tj/_bd6whds6lb7wtn2m8ylwx7h0000gp/T/ruby- build.20140427221824.34053.log
Last 10 log lines:
io-console 0.4.2
json 1.8.1
minitest 4.7.5
psych 2.0.3
rake 10.1.0
rdoc 4.1.0
test-unit 2.1.1.0
installing rdoc: /Users/nthulanemakgato/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/share/ri/2.1.0/system
installing capi-docs: /Users/nthulanemakgato/.rbenv/versions/2.1.1/share/doc/ruby
The Ruby openssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib?
So I went on Google, searched and tried a few things like:
$brew link openssl --force
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1f... Warning: Could not link openssl. Unlinking...
then i tried
$ brew update
error: unable to unlink old '.gitignore' (Permission denied) error: unable to create file CODEOFCONDUCT.md (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old 'CONTRIBUTING.md' (Permission denied) error: unable to create file LICENSE.txt (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old 'README.md' (Permission denied) error: unable to unlink old 'SUPPORTERS.md' (Permission denied) Checking out files: 100% (1995/1995), done. Error: Failure while executing: git pull - q origin refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
$ brew upgrade ruby-build
Error: ruby-build not installed
and,
$brew install openssl
==> Downloading https://downloads.sf.net/project/machomebrew/Bottles/openssl- 1.0.1g.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Pouring openssl-1.0.1g.mavericks.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
A CA file has been bootstrapped using certificates from the system
keychain. To add additional certificates, place .pem files in
/usr/local/etc/openssl/certs
and run
/usr/local/opt/openssl/bin/c_rehash
This formula is keg-only, so it was not symlinked into /usr/local.
Mac OS X already provides this software and installing another version in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.
The OpenSSL provided by OS X is too old for some software.
Generally there are no consequences of this for you. If you build your
own software and it requires this formula, you'll need to add to your
build variables:
LDFLAGS: -L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib
CPPFLAGS: -I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include
Error: Failed to create: /usr/local/opt/openssl
Things that depend on openssl will probably not build.
==> Summary
🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.1g: 429 files, 15M
and lastly,
$sudo brew install openssl
Password:
Error: Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew install`
You can use brew with sudo, but only if the brew executable is owned by root.
However, this is both not recommended and completely unsupported so do so at
your own risk.
and a couple of other things like(which details I won't go into unless you think its necessary):
$CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/openssl" rbenv install 2.1.1
$CFLAGS='-g -O2' RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl` rbenv install 2.1.1
and both haven't worked.
I have installed xcode
I have an OS X 10.9.2.
Homebrew is installed.
OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013
I don't understand what's going on and I have been struggling with this for a long time, please help.
Let me know if there is more information that you need in order to help and i'll happily provide it.
I found the answer to this challenge in another site.
$rbenv install --patch 2.1.1
then
$curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andschwa/11334511/raw/563d5c2efb869cafb0c65404d12243822bba2817/ruby-2.1.1-readline.patch | rbenv install --patch 2.1.1
I got this information from this link:
https://schwartzmeyer.com/2014/04/26/building-ruby-2-0-0-and-2-1-1-on-os-x/
First, I tried the common rvm install.
rvm install 1.9.2
However, the following error was shown:
The provided compiler '/usr/bin/gcc' is LLVM based, it is not yet fully supported by ruby and gems, please read `rvm requirements`.
Then I run
rvm requirements
and find these following part of output useful
Right now Ruby requires gcc to compile, but Xcode 4.2 and later no longer ship with gcc. Instead they ship with llvm-gcc (to which gcc is a symlink) and clang, neither of which are supported for building Ruby. Xcode 4.1 was the last version to ship gcc, which was /usr/bin/gcc-4.2.
Xcode 4.1 and earlier:
- Ruby will build fine.
Xcode 4.2 and later (including Command Line Tools for Xcode):
- If you have gcc-4.2 (and friends) from an earlier Xcode version, Ruby will build fine.
- If you don't have gcc-4.2, you have two options to get it:
* Install apple-gcc42 from Homebrew
* Install osx-gcc-installer
Homebrew:
If you are using Homebrew, you can install the apple-gcc42 and required libraries from homebrew/dupes:
brew update
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42
rvm pkg install openssl
This can live side by side with an existing Xcode 4.2+ install or Command Line Tools for Xcode.
so I tried:
brew update
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew install autoconf automake apple-gcc42
However, I got the following error
Warning: Could not link apple-gcc42. Unlinking...
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
You can try again using `brew link apple-gcc42'
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/apple-gcc42/4.2.1-5666.3: 104 files, 75M, built in 23 seconds
kanitw:shell.venturelab.com kanitw$ brew link apple-gcc42
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/apple-gcc42/4.2.1-5666.3... Warning: Could not link apple-gcc42. Unlinking...
Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/apple-gcc42/4.2.1-5666.3/include/gcc
/usr/local/include is not writable. You should change its permissions.
What would be my best solution? I kinda remember from somewhere that I should not use sudo with brew since I will mess up the whole installation.
You can change /usr/local directory owner
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
But, if you have mysql installed, you mast fix its owner
sudo chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql
You should run brew doctor and then change the permissions accordingly. There might be other issues.
Change the permissions of your /usr/local directory and try again.