Homebrew Symlink Error

Question

I am trying to install memcached using:

brew install memcached

This ends in error about homebrew not being able to create a symlink:

Answer 1

As of High Sierra, /usr/local is no longer chown-able. The new procedure suggested in a Homebrew issue is:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*

FYI: If required /usr/local subfolders (e.g. ./include or ./Frameworks) are missing, you'll have to mkdir them first