brew link mysql did not complete

Question

For some some reason brew does not link mysql and it complains about permission. I chmod the folder to 777 but I am still having the same issues

  laptop$ brew install mysql 

Error:

 mysql-5.5.27 already installed, it's just not linked

 laptop$ brew link mysql

 Linking /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.27... Warning: Could not link mysql. 

Unlinking...

    Error:
    Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.27/lib/plugin
    /usr/local/lib is not writable. You should change its permissions.

Solution 1

I figured what the problem was. It was issues with premission and I basically did this

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

Solution 2

I believe You should:

sudo chmod 775 /usr/local/lib/

and make sure You are member of the file's group.

Solution 3

Not really an answer, but a comment that may help those who are pulling out hair chowning and chmoding like crazy and still getting "not writeable" errors at linking. For example, from $ brew doctor -d

Error: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig isn't writable.

This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed by
by Homebrew. If a formula tries to write a file to this directory, the
install will fail during the link step.

I suggest you check the linked file and it's dependencies and either delete them and reinstall via homebrew, or install the package without using homebrew.

Solution 4

In my system this worked perfectly.

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

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Comments

[Aivoric]

Wow - I wish I found this earlier... thank you SO MUCH!