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

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Homebrew Permissions Denied Issues Solution

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

None of the above worked for me. Keep getting permissions errors when updating homebrew.

Example Permission Denied Error:

/Users/{insert username}/Library/Caches/Homebrew/api/formula_names.before.txt: Permission denied The solution that worked was just deleting the cache files:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Additionally, ran the following for good measure:

sudo chown -R {your username}:admin ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/
sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Then reinstall Homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Worked for me. thank you!

Thank you!

None of the above worked for me. Keep getting permissions errors when updating homebrew.

Example Permission Denied Error:

/Users/{insert username}/Library/Caches/Homebrew/api/formula_names.before.txt: Permission denied The solution that worked was just deleting the cache files:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Additionally, ran the following for good measure:

sudo chown -R {your username}:admin ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/
sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Then reinstall Homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Best fix. This worked for me on Monterey v12.6.3

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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 ...

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.

您的邮件已经收到。谢谢

None of the above worked for me. Keep getting permissions errors when updating homebrew.

Example Permission Denied Error:

/Users/{insert username}/Library/Caches/Homebrew/api/formula_names.before.txt: Permission denied The solution that worked was just deleting the cache files:

sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Additionally, ran the following for good measure:

sudo chown -R {your username}:admin ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/
sudo chmod -R 755 ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew/

Then reinstall Homebrew: /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

worked for me on Sonoma 14.5, thanks bro