[TBD]Homebrew for MacBook tools

Introduction

Laymen explanation

If you want to install Kivy in MacOS, you will see that it instructs to deploy tools via HomeBrew. Similarly, for other purposes as well, Homebrew is used.

Technical explanation

This is package manager in macOS

Installation of home-brew in macOS

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

Troubleshoot

For resolving permission denied issue

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

Error log

Shilpis-MacBook-Air:anaconda3 deepakkumar$ brew update

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh: line 548: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/UPDATE_FAILED: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/adoptopenjdk/homebrew-openjdk/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh: line 548: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/UPDATE_FAILED: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh: line 548: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/UPDATE_FAILED: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh: line 548: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/UPDATE_FAILED: Permission denied

fatal: Unable to create '/usr/local/Homebrew/.git/index.lock': Permission denied

error: could not lock config file .git/config: Permission denied

Already up-to-date.

Shilpis-MacBook-Air:anaconda3 deepakkumar$ brew install pyenv

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/adoptopenjdk/homebrew-openjdk/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

touch: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/.git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

fatal: Unable to create '/usr/local/Homebrew/.git/index.lock': Permission denied

error: could not lock config file .git/config: Permission denied

Traceback (most recent call last):

11: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in `<main>'

10: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in `require_relative'

9: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:37:in `<top (required)>'

8: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'

7: from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:54:in `require'

6: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'

5: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os.rb:21:in `<module:OS>'

4: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac.rb:58:in `prerelease?'

3: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac.rb:24:in `version'

2: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac.rb:24:in `new'

1: from /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/version.rb:26:in `initialize'

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/version.rb:368:in `initialize': Version value must be a string; got a NilClass () (TypeError)

Shilpis-MacBook-Air:anaconda3 deepakkumar$ brew install pyenv

Refer: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50267510/brew-update-fails-with-permission-denied-error/50268978

Reference

https://brew.sh

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