can't brew install node

Question

I am trying to upgrade my node via homebrew but ran into a problem because I think I tried to download through the website. I am very new to terminal. I\'ve tried to search

Answer 1

If you try to brew link node and it says something along the lines:

Error: Could not symlink include/node/openssl/archs/aix-gcc/asm/include/openssl/opensslconf.h Target /usr/local/include/node/openssl/archs/aix-gcc/asm/include/openssl/opensslconf.h already exists. You may want to remove it:

Try this:

brew link --overwrite --dry-run node | xargs rm
brew link node 

Answer 2

I ran into this problem on a new MacBook Pro on Mac OS High Sierra. I gleaned brew was trying to use directories named include and lib under /usr/local that was not there. Since root owns /usr I had to do it manually - making sure that whoami owner matches peer directories in /usr/local:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/include
chown `whoami`:admin /usr/local/include 
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib
chown `whoami`:admin /usr/local/lib

And then to match the other directories in /usr/local I did:

chmod 775 /usr/local/include
chmod 775 /usr/local/lib

then the following worked:

brew uninstall node 
brew install node

Answer 3

brew postinstall node or brew link --overwrite node doesn't seem to help.

After several rounds of brew uninstall node and brew install node the following were the offending directories and files:

sudo rm -r /usr/local/include/node
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/doc/node
sudo rm -r /usr/local/lib/node_modules
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
sudo rm /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp

After the offending files are removed brew will do all the proper linking with permissions for you.

Likely permissions were set as root:wheel because of a past install with sudo or perhaps manual installation, etc.

Answer 4

remove the error folder or file manually and run this command brew uninstall node && brew install node

You have to do this process till all error folder and files are removed.

Then node will be linked.

Answer 5

I ran into this same issue under the same circumstances. I was able to get the brew version to install successfully by:

1. Run brew install node
2. Make note of the module that is causing the issue and delete it. In your case, this would be /usr/local/include/node
3. Uninstall - brew uninstall node
4. Re-install - brew install node

I had to repeat this process a few times for each remaining problematic directory (about 3 different ones in actuality), and the install eventually succeeded without any issues.

Answer 6

brew link --overwrite node

Error: Could not symlink (...)

/usr/xxx

sudo chown -R 'whoami?':admin xxx
brew link --overwrite node

Rinse and repeat