Homebrew: Cannot link python

Question

I'm having an issue linking python in Homebrew. Here is the output:

brew link python

Linking /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.13... Error: Permission denied - /usr/local/Frameworks

When I ls -al on the contents of /usr/local (to see the permissions of Frameworks), I find there is no directory 'Frameworks'.

I'm hesitant to mkdir Frameworks in case it does so with the wrong permissions and doesn't connect it to other elements of the system.

Answer 1

Create the Frameworks directory and chown for itself

$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/Frameworks
$ sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local/Frameworks
$ brew link python

Answer 2

I used the command: sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local courtesy of this answer elsewhere on Stack Overflow.

Answer 3

This worked for me:

sudo chown -R $(whoami):admin /usr/local/Cellar/
brew unlink python
brew link python