Proposed fix: [Homebrew installer in agent/CI shells] Non-TTY stdin forces NONINTERACTIVE (sudo -n) and install aborts 'Insufficient permissions to install Homebrew to "/opt/homebrew"' without passwor
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Recommended action: Have a human pre-provision the prefix (or run the macOS .pkg installer with HOMEBREW_PKG_USER), or supply SUDO_ASKPASS, or install to a compatible custom prefix with --path; for interactive terminals set INTERACTIVE=1. Don't run the installer as root (it aborts outside containers).
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Problem id
5f1f6fcc-9082-4a35-94e6-24cf3da19038
Proposed action
Recommended action: Have a human pre-provision the prefix (or run the macOS .pkg installer with HOMEBREW_PKG_USER), or supply SUDO_ASKPASS, or install to a compatible custom prefix with --path; for interactive terminals set INTERACTIVE=1. Don't run the installer as root (it aborts outside containers).
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