Change permissions for app installed by administrator

vegfarmer wrote:

The main problem was my unfamiliarity with unix commands. I finally found (on another forum) that Whereis magick would give me the program path (/opt/homebrew/bin/ for Apple Silicon). I have to put the whole path in to get it to work but I can write scripts so I don't have to write the whole path every time.

Homebrew did install it with execute permissions so I just needed the path to use it.

Problem solved.

Search for how to add that to the PATH variable in the particular shell you are using (normally zsh, now).

It's been a long time, but homebrew used to install apps inside a folder they suggested you change permissions to the user account instead of system. That location is no longer writeable, so I assume they found another place and they likely put it under the user that installed homebrew because they have no idea that some people have multiple users. If you can find that folder, give it read/write to the Staff group. I no longer use homebrew because of the mess it makes of the shell environment so I can't give you more specific information.