I've just installed Homebrew. When I run brew doctor I get this
Warning: Some directories in /usr/local/share/man aren't writable.
This can happen if you "sudo make install" software that isn't managed
by Homebrew. If a brew tries to add locale information to one of these
directories, then the install will fail during the link step.
You should probably `chown` them:
/usr/local/share/man/de
What does "You should probably `chown' them" mean? Can someone explain what exactly Homebrew wants me to do?
Ok, so chown is the unix command to change the ownership of a file.
Homebrew is asking me to change the ownership of /usr/local/share/man/de so that Homebrew can write to it. Homebrew runs with the same permissions as I do, so making myself the file's owner should solve the problem.
Running the following fixes the problem:
sudo chown $(whoami) /usr/local/share/man/de