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

For those running high sierra on MacOS:

I tried giving permissions using the chown command and uninstalling then reinstalling node via homebrew but nothing worked.

I just went to this site https://nodejs.org/en/download/ and downloaded the 64 bit macOS .pkg and it worked perfectly. I tested it by just entering the command node in terminal.