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

Thanks for updating your own question this helped me a lot. I fixed this issue by making all locations in /usr/local writable to group as I am already in the admin group.

To do this just use the following command

sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local