Problems with Homebrew on Yosemite

Question

I'm a newbie to Homebrew, having some problems. Can anyone help? I've been using step-by-step instructions from the belowmentioned website but I ran into a wall. Here's what brew doctor tells me.

I can't install "winetricks" because "freetype" is disabled. I can't "link freetype" because

"Linking /usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.5.5... Error: Could not symlink include/freetype2/config /usr/local/include/freetype2 is not writable."

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Here's what it says in Terminal:

Iiljas:~ harrilammi$ brew doctor Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is working fine: please don't worry and just ignore them. Thanks!

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.3.16.dylib /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected header files: /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftconfig.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftheader.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftmodule.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftstdlib.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftbbox.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftbdf.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftbitmap.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftcache.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftchapters.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/fterrdef.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/fterrors.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftgasp.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftglyph.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftgxval.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftgzip.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftimage.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftincrem.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftlcdfil.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftlist.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftlzw.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftmac.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftmm.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftmodapi.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftmoderr.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftotval.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftoutln.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftpfr.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftrender.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftsizes.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftsnames.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftstroke.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftsynth.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftsystem.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/fttrigon.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/fttypes.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftwinfnt.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ftxf86.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/t1tables.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ttnameid.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/tttables.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/tttags.h /usr/local/include/freetype2/freetype/ttunpat.h /usr/local/include/ft2build.h

Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .la files: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.la

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/fontforge.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libcurl.pc /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/sigc++-2.0.pc

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib. If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries: /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.a

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run brew link on these:

freetype

Warning: Homebrew's sbin was not found in your PATH but you have installed formulae that put executables in /usr/local/sbin. Consider setting the PATH for example like so echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile Iiljas:~ harrilammi$ brew install winetricks Error: You must `brew link freetype' before winetricks can be installed Iiljas:~ harrilammi$ brew link freetype Linking /usr/local/Cellar/freetype/2.5.5... Error: Could not symlink include/freetype2/config /usr/local/include/freetype2 is not writable.

Answer 1

I would try the following:

brew remove --force freetype
brew remove --force winetricks

and then run

brew doctor 

again, and correct the warnings. Then start all over again with

brew install freetype
brew install winetricks