Can't install homebrew

Question

I have a fairly new macbook pro and I'm simply trying to install homebrew according to the directions on their site:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

However, when I run this I get the following output:

The user \u cannot be found There was an unknown error. This script requires the user \u to be an Administrator.

My macbook only has 1 user, which is me, the Administrator. That's who I'm logged in as on the computer.

Another thing I've tried is running the command with sudo, in which case I get the following message:

Don't run this as root!

Another thing I've tried is downloading Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode: xcode-select --install as I saw this suggested on Homebrew's site and elsewhere online.

After creating a new user with "Admin" privileges apart from my root account, the homebrew install command above started to run but then quit with the following error:

/usr/local/homebrew/.git: Permission denied Failed during: git init -q

At this point I'm stuck and not sure what to do.

Answer 1

I was able to install Homebrew using the following steps. Note I did this on a non-root admin user account. I had to create this user account separately and give it admin access just to do this. Once I logged out of my root account and logged into the admin non-root account, I typed the following commands into terminal:

xcode-select --install cd /usr/local/Homebrew git init git remote add origin https://github.com/Homebrew/brew git fetch --all git checkout -B master origin/master cd /usr/local ln -s /usr/local/Homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin

I found most of these steps here:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/5084#issuecomment-248834806

Hope this helps someone else.