Homebrew install - sudo?

Question

I am trying to install Homebrew in my terminal. It first asked me for Password which I typed in (the password I use to login to my computer) and hit enter. Then it comes up with 'Need sudo access on macOS!' - what does this mean? I am already the admin (as far as I know) as this is my personal laptop, noone else uses it. I don't understand what else they need!

My aim is to install git but I can't even get this to install first..

Can anyone help, thanks :)

Solution 1

Simple solution

in the terminal type first

sudo su

1. Type the password

2. Install homebrew

Solution 2

Open a new terminal session.

type sudo whoami

If it comes back with root then you have root privileges. You can also check under users and groups to see if you are an admin.

Also try running it again but using sudo first. You can also type sudo !! and that will run the previous command as sudo.

Comments

[Jérôme]

What is the command you're using ?

[bfontaine]

FYI I downvoted, not because this is not true, but because it’s not useful here. Homebrew’s install script asks for sudo access for some operations, but the script itself should not be ran using sudo.

[bfontaine]

Again: no. It’ll even abort itself if you try do so: github.com/Homebrew/install/blob/…

[denfromufa]

This resolved my issue - black magic!