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

You need to make /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/share writable. I used this answer to achieve this. Below is the key advice in the answer replicated in case the link breaks:

sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/bin
sudo chown -R `whoami`:admin /usr/local/share