Unable to use brew to install other software

[saikongara]

Unable to use brew to install other software like azure CLI.

The following directories are not writable by your user:
/usr/local/share/man/man5

Tried to re-install the brew, couldn't have sudo access, which I believe brew doesn't require.

Need suggestions to get this working.

[gromgit]

Who installed Homebrew on your machine? If someone else did the install, all the relevant directories under /usr/local would be owned by them, which would explain why you can't write to them.

If that were the case, then the simplest solution is for them to run:

sudo chown -R <your_username>:admin /usr/local/*

And yes, sudo access isn't required for normal Homebrew operations, but the Homebrew install script does require it to set up the /usr/local hierarchy to be writable by you.

[saikongara]

Is there any other way instead of using sudo access to fix this issue. Even I tried to re-install Brew, but it is asking for sudo access which in normal cases is not required !

[gromgit]

Is there any other way instead of using sudo access to fix this issue

If ordinary users like you can change ownerships and permissions of stuff not owned by you, and without yourself requiring special permissions, you'll have a security nightmare on your hands. Not gonna happen.

That said, if you can't convince your admin to run that one single command I mentioned above, you could reinstall Homebrew under some other directory that you own. However, note that none of the Homebrew formulae are tested for installation under arbitrary directories like /Users/saikongara/your/special/dir, so you may experience random breakage that you'll have to solve on your own.

The choice is yours.

[SMillerDev]

Even I tried to re-install Brew, but it is asking for sudo access which in normal cases is not required !

The brew install always asked/asks for sudo access exactly so it doesn't have to do that in normal operations

[SMillerDev]

That can't possibly fix this issue, please only post thingst that actually fix the issue presented

[saikongara]

got the Admin rights and ran sudo chown -R <your_username>:admin /usr/local/* and the issue resolved

[tresf]

Are user-space installs still discouraged? This seems like a reasonable answer to anyone without sudo, assuming the formula don't falter as a result.

[carlocab]

From https://docs.brew.sh/Installation#untar-anywhere

However do yourself a favour and install to /usr/local on macOS Intel, /opt/homebrew on macOS ARM, and /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew on Linux. Some things may not build when installed elsewhere. One of the reasons Homebrew just works relative to the competition is because we recommend installing here. Pick another prefix at your peril!