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

It seems that since El Capitan the file permissions in /usr/local have been changed, causing the above problem for me.

Instead of the chosen solution I suggest to do a:

sudo chown -R :staff /usr/local

This will work for all users