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Hello,

I tried to install on macOS High Sierra with Homebrew, but got the following error after "make install" :

Error: The brew link step did not complete successfully The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local Could not symlink share/cadabra2/images/cadabra2-gtk.png /usr/local/share/cadabra2/images is not writable.

You can try again using: brew link cadabra2

Does anyone know what to do?

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You can try that suggestion, but if that also fails, try brew doctor before you do anything else. That usually comes up with useful suggestions on broken installations.

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Indeed sorry I should have mentioned that I had tried it right away but it repeats the complaint about this "images" folder. Brew doctor only mentions 2 missing symlinks:cadabra2 (obviously) and ghostscript. Do you think it may be related?

In any case, thank you very much for the very quick reaction!

You can try to make that /usr/local/share/cadabra2/images folder writeable?

I unsuccessfully tried "chmod +w /usr/local/share/cadabra2/images", so I still don't know what went wrong. Anyway I could build from source without any trouble, so no big deal.

Thank you very much again for your prompt reactions!

Maybe better to ask on the homebrew mailing list/forum.

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