Error: Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew install` for installing glue 0.3 for Mac OSX Mountain Lion

Question

I\'m trying to install glue 0.3 for OXS Mountain Lion and ran into this error after installing homebrew (Error: Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install You can use b

Answer 1

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local

Use the above command instead of changing the owner of brew to root.

This is the suggested method by the Owner of homebrew in https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/9953