Monday, December 28, 2015

brew update fails on Mac OS 10.11.x EL Capitan - Solution

If you are getting error like:

error: unable to unlink old '.gitignore' (Permission denied)

error: unable to create file .travis.yml (Permission denied)
...

then you need to do following.

use command brew doctor to get a list of potential issues and solutions

$brew doctor

For this particular issue, the solution was to change ownership on /usr/local

$sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local

That is it. Now brew update should work!

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