Trouble installing valgrind on macOS Sierra

Asked Jul 03 '17 at 14:35

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I'm trying to install valgrind on my Mac (Sierra). I first followed the instructions here: How to build and install Valgrind on Mac?

This gave an error, so then I tried a Homebrew installation using "brew install valgrind" which gave me errors and lead me to this: Yosemite and Valgrind

I have tried that too, but keep getting the error: "The formula built, but is not symlinked into /usr/local Could not symlink include/valgrind/callgrind.h /usr/local/include/valgrind is not writable." I tried "brew link valgrind" but that gave the same error.

I am just learning how to code so step-by-step help would be greatly appreciated.

asked Jul 03 '17 at 14:35

thorium

What is the result of `ls -l /usr/local`? – Gavin Portwood Jul 03 '17 at 15:35
There's a whole bunch of things: Cellar, Frameworks, Homebrew, texlive, bin, lib, bin, sbin, var, etc – thorium Jul 03 '17 at 15:37
What are the permissions on /usr/local? Give the result of `ls -ld /usr/local` – Gavin Portwood Jul 03 '17 at 15:39
drwxr-xr-x 15 root wheel 510 Jul 3 10:19 /usr/local – thorium Jul 03 '17 at 15:44
Homebrew does not have permissions to install things, there is a guide to solve this problem [here](https://digitizor.com/fix-homebrew-permissions-osx-el-capitan/). Step 4 should solve it. – Gavin Portwood Jul 03 '17 at 15:46
Hmm I'm still getting the same error. – thorium Jul 03 '17 at 16:27
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/148237/discussion-between-gavin-portwood-and-user3603077). – Gavin Portwood Jul 03 '17 at 16:39
possibly `brew install valgrind --HEAD` – rogerdpack Jul 31 '18 at 21:54

Trouble installing valgrind on macOS Sierra

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