Trouble install node.js with homebrew

Question

I'm trying to install Node.js with Homebrew (I installed it previously without using brew, and I've tried deleting all of those files). I've looked at previous questions asking similar things, but I haven't been able to get them to work. First I tried brew link node which gave me:

myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link node Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.6...  Error: Could not symlink share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp Target /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp already exists. You may want to remove it:   rm '/usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp'  To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:   brew link --overwrite node  To list all files that would be deleted:   brew link --overwrite --dry-run node 

And then when I run brew link --overwrite node I get the following:

myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link --overwrite node Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.6...  Error: Could not symlink share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset is not writable. 

Additionally, when I tried using brew link -n node to find files to manually delete, I managed to delete some of them, but I'm still left with the following files that I can't delete:

myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link -n node Would link: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm /usr/local/bin/node /usr/local/include/node /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d 

When I try to delete I get the following (same thing for all of these files):

myusername@c126h060:~$ rm /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm rm: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm: No such file or directory 

What should I do?

Answer 1

It may be that you don't actually own your systemtap directory. Navigate to /usr/local/share and run this command in order to make yourself the owner:

chown -R <yourusername>:<yourgroupname> systemtap 

When I was fixing this same issue earlier today, I had to also go into /usr/local and do the same thing for the lib directory.