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Unable to install or upgrade any package #19339

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brew doctor output

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Warning: Some installed formulae are deprecated or disabled.
You should find replacements for the following formulae:
  libassuan@2

Warning: /private/tmp is world-writable but does not have the sticky bit set.
To set it, run the following command:
  sudo chmod +t /private/tmp

Verification

  • My "brew doctor output" above says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
  • I ran brew update twice and am still able to reproduce my issue.
  • This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.

brew config output

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 4.4.21
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 2e57f8f794af60804dcc185d1807c6d6ca10418c
Last commit: 3 days ago
Branch: stable
Core tap JSON: 19 Feb 23:29 UTC
Core cask tap JSON: 19 Feb 23:29 UTC
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_EDITOR: code
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 12
Homebrew Ruby: 3.3.7 => /opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/3.3.7/bin/ruby
CPU: dodeca-core 64-bit arm_lobos
Clang: 16.0.0 build 1600
Git: 2.39.5 => /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git
Curl: 8.7.1 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 15.3.1-arm64
CLT: 16.2.0.0.1.1733547573
Xcode: N/A
Rosetta 2: false

What were you trying to do (and why)?

Hi,
I was trying to upgrade my packages with the brew upgrade command but keeps failing on the sqllite package.
Then I've tried to manually upgrade a specific package brew upgrade <package_name> and it kept failing. I very rapidly discover that I was unable to install nor upgrade anything.

What happened (include all command output)?

Each time I try to install or upgrade or reinstall a package I get the error

cp: chflags: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/wget: Operation not permitted

I've already tried:

  • to check for permission problems, by running sudo chown -R lollo:staff $(brew --prefix)/*where "lollo" is my username.
  • to do a brew cleanup
  • to reboot the Mac
  • to reinstall an already install package brew reinstall wget
  • to empty the /tmp and /private/tmp dirs
  • to disable SIP
  • to run again the brew setup (I have brew installed for almost a year now, just hoping that it would fix whatever strange permission problem I'm having)

The error is always the same:

==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/manifests/1.25.0
################################################################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
==> Fetching wget
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/wget/blobs/sha256:a93dd95c5d63036e026b526e000d33fae7fb44d9a8fda5afc89bff112438c6b3
################################################################################################################################################################################### 100.0%
==> Reinstalling wget 
==> Pouring wget--1.25.0.arm64_sequoia.bottle.tar.gz
cp: chflags: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/wget: Operation not permitted
Error: Failure while executing; `/usr/bin/env cp -pR /private/tmp/homebrew-unpack-20250220-13080-3msve0/wget /opt/homebrew/Cellar` exited with 1. Here's the output:
cp: chflags: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/wget: Operation not permitted

Here you can find the output for the command brew reinstall wget --debug --verbose

Here is the output of command ls -alO /opt/homebrew/Cellar | grep wget inside the /opt/homebrew/Cellardirectory

drwxr-xr-x   3 lollo  staff  -   96 Feb 20 00:41 wget

And here is the output of command ls -alO /opt/homebrew/Cellar/wget

total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 lollo  staff  -   96 Feb 20 00:47 .
drwxrwxr-x  97 lollo  staff  - 3104 Feb 19 23:18 ..
drwxr-xr-x  13 lollo  staff  -  416 Dec 11 17:46 1.25.0

What did you expect to happen?

The packages should upgrade or install without problems

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

brew upgrade

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