brew uninstall node error high sierra

Question

I try to uninstall node with brew, but I run into the following issue that I do not seem to get solved.

When I run brew uninstall node , I get the following error message:

Uninstalling /usr/local/Cellar/node/10.5.0_1... (7,893 files, 34.2MB)
Error: Directory not empty @ dir_s_rmdir - /usr/local/Cellar/node/10.5.0_1

Any idea how to solve this issue? Can I just delete this file?

Thank you for any help.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I did a recursive chown on the /usr/local/Celler/node folder setting it to MyUser:staff (changing MyUser to your user, obviously) and that allowed me to successfully run brew uninstall node. Hope it helps.