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I am trying to install do brew install python3 on my mac but i keep getting the following errors:

this is the first error:

No such file or directory @ dir_chdir - /usr/local/Cellar

then a bit later i get this error:

An exception occurred within a child process: Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/local/Cellar

I have ran brew update then brew doctor the brew cleanup but keep getting the error.
I have also checked to see if xcode is up-to-date but according to the appstore all my apps are up-to-date.

How do i fix this problem?

PS i also get these errors when trying to install other packages from brew.

Aggregate answered 5/2, 2019 at 21:58 Comment(0)
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Try uninstalling Homebrew and then re-installing solved issue for me.

Uninstall Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

Re-install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Performed in MacOS Mojave (10.14.4)

Acheron answered 9/4, 2019 at 7:13 Comment(8)
This make me resintall tmux – Zany
Dont do this, it will make you reinstall a lot of stuff – Aryn
Uninstalling Homebrew will also uninstall a lot of your installed packages. – Tumpline
that means uninstalling all formaulae with it..! – Allspice
Worked for me on linux. After uninstalling and before reinstalling, I threw in a rm -rf /home/linuxbrew for good measure. – Burgonet
When doing this, and not removing all applications, brew returns after the reinstall a empty list. Even when applications are installed which where installed by brew. Not a good solution. – Streamlined
DO NOT DO THIS. THIS WILL UNINSTALL A LOT OF THINGS – Benford
DO NOT DO this - makes things worse – Copley
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Happened to me when uninstalling Laravel Valet.

Fixed by running: brew doctor, then brew cleanup after. After that - brew install php worked just fine.

Ibbie answered 4/11, 2022 at 22:34 Comment(4)
This is it, Try it out and it'll work. – Loan
Yep this worked perfectly... should be best answer – Malayan
It works for me, but it's not the answer to this question because OP has done these already. – Merril
The best answer! – Shall
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Try uninstalling Homebrew and then re-installing solved issue for me.

Uninstall Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

Re-install Homebrew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Performed in MacOS Mojave (10.14.4)

Acheron answered 9/4, 2019 at 7:13 Comment(8)
This make me resintall tmux – Zany
Dont do this, it will make you reinstall a lot of stuff – Aryn
Uninstalling Homebrew will also uninstall a lot of your installed packages. – Tumpline
that means uninstalling all formaulae with it..! – Allspice
Worked for me on linux. After uninstalling and before reinstalling, I threw in a rm -rf /home/linuxbrew for good measure. – Burgonet
When doing this, and not removing all applications, brew returns after the reinstall a empty list. Even when applications are installed which where installed by brew. Not a good solution. – Streamlined
DO NOT DO THIS. THIS WILL UNINSTALL A LOT OF THINGS – Benford
DO NOT DO this - makes things worse – Copley
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I experienced a similar error with a different package - brew install llvm.

Uninstalling homebrew and reinstalling led to more catastrophic issues that lasted for hours before I had to reach for my backup drive and restore everything. What eventually worked was just creating the missing directory and everything worked. So in this case:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/Cellar/dir_chdir

should solve the issue without too much hustle.

Autotrophic answered 9/6, 2020 at 11:17 Comment(0)
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It worked for me after running below commands

sudo mkdir /usr/local/Cellar/dir_chdir
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/Cellar
chmod u+w /usr/local/Cellar
Clemmy answered 27/1, 2021 at 7:39 Comment(0)
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After doing sudo i was getting this error: bash: /bin/brew: No such file or directory.

i fixed it like this. Open your .bashrc file.

vim ~/.bashrc

and close the last line as a comment.

#eval "$(/bin/brew shellenv)"
Fourth answered 22/2 at 7:36 Comment(0)
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I had this problem as well - it was partly coming from brew being installed under a different user on my mac I had set up for a past project. I had to follow the uninstall instructions (found in the homebrew github) with a little bit of sudo help and it cleared up the issue. Was able to install and properly run packages after.

Manse answered 1/1, 2022 at 19:5 Comment(0)
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uninstall brew :

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/uninstall.sh)"

and again reinstall brew:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

executed this same as it is on your terminal, it will really work.

Sportscast answered 4/2, 2023 at 5:52 Comment(0)
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These commands worked for me!

brew doctor
brew autoremove
brew cleanup
Shall answered 30/12, 2023 at 3:11 Comment(0)
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For ubuntu just go to the location which u are getting error. Then open the contained file using a suitable application. In my case, it is getting as follows in the image view.

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In this case, the error is showing in 36's lines.

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yes. There is no location such as. I have to find out the location which contains brew. It was in /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew//bin/brew shellenv

So update your .profile file as in the brew file contains location as follows image shown.

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Traject answered 20/7, 2020 at 15:49 Comment(0)

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