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atom install fails in non-standard location #10054

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danielb2 opened this issue Mar 15, 2015 · 1 comment
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atom install fails in non-standard location #10054

danielb2 opened this issue Mar 15, 2015 · 1 comment

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@danielb2
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It's trying to install to /usr/local/bin/apm which it doesn't have permissions to do as non-root. It should install in the default brew location instead or not completely die on fail here.

[~/s/w/objectFilter]$ cask install atom
==> Downloading https://atom.io/download/mac
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Symlinking App 'Atom.app' to '/Applications/Atom.app'
==> Symlinking Binary 'apm' to '/usr/local/bin/apm'
==> ln: /usr/local/bin/apm: Permission denied
Error: Command failed to execute!

==> Failed command:
["/bin/ln", "-hfs", "--", "#<Pathname:/Users/daniel/local/Darwin/caskroom/atom/latest/Atom.app/C

==> Output of failed command:


==> Exit status of failed command:
#<Process::Status: pid 18571 exit 1>
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#7750.

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