Homebrew Symlink Error

Question

I am trying to install memcached using:

brew install memcached

This ends in error about homebrew not being able to create a symlink:

Answer 1

I uninstalled what homebrew had so far installed (libevent dependency):

brew uninstall libevent

Then chow-ned the usr/local directory:

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local

Then tried to install memcached again and it worked:

brew install memcached