title: Trouble install node.js with homebrew
body: <p>I'm trying to install Node.js with Homebrew (I installed it previously without using brew, and I've tried deleting all of those files). I've looked at previous questions asking similar things, but I haven't been able to get them to work. First I tried <code>brew link node</code> which gave me:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.6... 
  Error: Could not symlink share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
  Target /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
  already exists. You may want to remove it:
    rm '/usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp'
  
  To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
    brew link --overwrite node
  
  To list all files that would be deleted:
    brew link --overwrite --dry-run node
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And then when I run <code>brew link --overwrite node</code> I get the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link --overwrite node
  Linking /usr/local/Cellar/node/0.12.6... 
  Error: Could not symlink share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
  /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset is not writable.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Additionally, when I tried using <code>brew link -n node</code> to find files to manually delete, I managed to delete some of them, but I'm still left with the following files that I can't delete:</p>
  
  <pre><code>myusername@c126h060:~$ brew link -n node
  Would link:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm
  /usr/local/bin/node
  /usr/local/include/node
  /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
  /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
  /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I try to delete I get the following (same thing for all of these files):</p>
  
  <pre><code>myusername@c126h060:~$ rm /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm
  rm: /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/npm: No such file or directory
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What should I do?</p>