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Error installing Visual Studio for mac

I have a MacBook Air with macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I'm getting the following error trying to install Visual Studio for Mac:

Initial task interrupted by exception Access to the path "/Users/username/.config/xbuild" is denied. Exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException Message: Access to the path "/Users/username/.config/xbuild" is denied. at Xamarin.Web.Installer.TasksManager.DetectComponents () [0x000a1] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/4852/1d420fd9/source/installer/Xamarin.Web.Installer/TasksManager.cs:306

Thanks for your help.

Solution

  • Building on @Elvermg's comment with more details:

    I ran:

    $ ls -la ~ | grep .config

drwxr-xr-x    5 root  staff         170 22 Jun 15:08 .config

    This confirmed the same issue.

    I changed the owner of the ~/.config directory:

    sudo chown [username]:staff ~/.config/

    Problem solved.