What to do if when you enter brew doctor
and you get the following message:
**Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!**
_Warning:_ Some directories in /usr/local/share/man aren't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
directories, then the install will fail during the link step.
You should probably `sudo chown -R $(whoami)` them:
` /usr/local/share/man/man8`
chown
is the unix command to change the ownership of a file.
Homebrew is asking to change the ownership of/usr/local/share/man/man8
so that Homebrew can write to it. Homebrew runs with the same permissions as I do, so making myself the file’s owner should solve the problem.- Running this command will correct this problem and the warning will go away.
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/man8
- Now it will prompt for your password.
Password:
- After your password is entered correctly run
brew doctor
again. Now you should finally getYour system is ready to brew.