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Diffstat (limited to 'Library/Homebrew/cmd')
| -rw-r--r-- | Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh index c32556583..eebab3691 100644 --- a/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh +++ b/Library/Homebrew/cmd/update.sh @@ -288,12 +288,21 @@ EOS # check permissions if [[ "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX" = "/usr/local" && ! -w /usr/local ]] then - odie "/usr/local must be writable!" + odie <<-EOS +/usr/local is not writable. You should change the ownership +and permissions of /usr/local back to your user account: + sudo chown -R \$(whoami) /usr/local +EOS fi if [[ ! -w "$HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY" ]] then - odie "$HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY must be writable!" + odie <<-EOS +$HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY is not writable. You should change the +ownership and permissions of $HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY back to your +user account: + sudo chown -R \$(whoami) $HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY +EOS fi if [[ -n "$HOMEBREW_UPDATE_PREINSTALL" ]] |