Brew install libyaml ERROR

Question

$ brew install libyaml ==> Downloading http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-0.1.4.tar.gz Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/libyaml-0.1.4.tar.gz ==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libyaml/0.1.4 ==> make install Warning: Could not link libyaml. Unlinking... Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local You can try again using `brew link libyaml' ==> Summary 🍺 /usr/local/Cellar/libyaml/0.1.4: 7 files, 336K, built in 9 seconds 

OS X 10.8.2 how can I fix this problem? what should I do?

Answer 1

Start with a brew doctor who will show you the errors with setting up brew.

You may see something like this: "Warning: / usr / local / lib / pkgconfig is not writable."

This will give you advice: "You should probably chown / usr / local / lib / pkgconfig."

This means: sudo chown {your-user-name} /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

Then you will need to link the files to this: brew link libyaml

If this does not work, then the output of brew doctor will give you enough to continue your search.