Error: Cowardly refusing to `sudo brew install` for installing glue 0.3 for Mac OSX Mountain Lion

Question

I\'m trying to install glue 0.3 for OXS Mountain Lion and ran into this error after installing homebrew (Error: Cowardly refusing to sudo brew install You can use b

Answer 1

Answered by the developers here:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/9953

I solved it by NOT using sudo, and changing the permissions on whatever file it says cannot be accessed without sudo.

For example, I could not access /usr/local/Cellar, so I entered the following (as specified here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/issues/3930)

sudo chmod g+w /usr/local/Cellar
sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/Cellar