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Fix homebrew permissions
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sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Cellar | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Homebrew | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/var/homebrew | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ${HOME}/Library/Caches/Homebrew | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) ${HOME}/Library/Logs/Homebrew | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/etc | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/opt | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/bin | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/var | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man1 | |
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/homebrew-cask |
to be able to update imagemagick I also needed to add:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share
worked like a charm too for me, after upgrade to OS Catalina. I had to update permissions of /usr/local/lib
to update Subversion too:
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/lib
How would you run this for another user? i.e. console/logged in user?
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Thank you for this! Works like a charm