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Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

1:09pm Wed 13th Mar, ANONYMOUS

I tried to download cnet for MacOS following the instruction but got the error "you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin", please help me to fix it.

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Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

1:35pm Wed 13th Mar, Uzziah S.

I'm a Windows user so please forgive my ignorance. Are you able to use sudo before ./install-cnet.sh? You might need superuser permissions to write to /usr/local/bin.

Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

1:59pm Wed 13th Mar, Dang L.

I just tried sudo ./install-cnet.sh but still get the same error

Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

6:06pm Wed 13th Mar, Ryan M.

had the same problem on mac. For me the problem was that the /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/lib directory never existed, so you need to move to the /usr/local directory and create the missing directory via [sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib] or [sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin] then the install with [sudo] should go smoothly

Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

6:36pm Wed 13th Mar, Dang L.

thank you it works for me now

Error: you do not have permission to write to the directory /usr/local/bin (all 6)

8:55am Thu 14th Mar, Christopher M.

The solution to this is *not* to do everything as root (the administrator), and not to install cnet as root, as you may be locked out from using it. But some of the suggestions, above, are correct - thank you. From the shell/terminal, either on macOS or Linux:

shell>  sudo sh
(your password)
$> mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/lib
$> chown <your-account-name> /usr/local/bin/ /usr/local/lib
$> exit

(you're now back in your account)
shell> ./install-cnet.sh