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I have problems linking brew's vim version

I'm trying to install vim with brew in Mac OS mojave, I can use it by introducing the entire direction in the terminal but when I type vim it uses the default one, and when I built it it showed this error:

==> Pouring vim-8.2.0750.mojave.bottle.tar.gz
Error: The `brew link` step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local
Could not symlink share/man/de/man1/ex.1
/usr/local/share/man/de/man1 is not writable.

You can try again using:
  brew link vim

I tried linking it and it showed this error:

$ brew link vim
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/vim/8.2.0750... 
Error: Could not symlink share/man/de/man1/ex.1
/usr/local/share/man/de/man1 is not writable.
MacBook-Air-de-Carlos:~ julian$
Solution

  • You have to set ownership on /usr/local/share with:

    sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local/share