Try brew install gdbm. If it's already installed, but not linked, you can also try brew ln gdbm.

Fixed, but the oddest thing -- man3 had the wrong permissions:

➜ ~ brew ln gdbm
Warning: Already linked: /usr/local/Cellar/gdbm/1.11
To relink: brew unlink gdbm && brew link gdbm
➜ ~ brew unlink gdbm && brew link gdbm
Unlinking /usr/local/Cellar/gdbm/1.11... 0 links removed
Linking /usr/local/Cellar/gdbm/1.11... Warning: Could not link gdbm. Unlinking...

Error: Could not symlink file: /usr/local/Cellar/gdbm/1.11/share/man/man3/gdbm.3
/usr/local/share/man/man3 is not writable. You should change its permissions.

Is this fixed now?

It is fixed now.

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On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Adam Vandenberg notifications@github.comwrote:

Is this fixed now?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/27106#issuecomment-36459738
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I also ran into this issue upgrading to OS X Mavericks.

Eventually, I went through the following steps to fix it:

brew update
brew doctor
brew upgrade
brew cleanup

After that, I was still getting these issues when trying to load zsh as my shell:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgdbm.4.dylib

I ended up running this command to reinstall and relink:

brew reinstall gdbm && brew unlink gdbm && brew link gdbm

Then I had to do the same for pcre:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libpcre.1.dylib

brew reinstall pcre && brew unlink pcre && brew link pcre

+1 for having experienced this problem. I was experiencing the gdbm and pcre thing as well but relinking solved the problem.

👍 had this problem as well after upgrading to OSX 10.9. The suggestion for pcre and gdbm worked to fix zsh. I actually had the same problem though with every brew installed app. The symlinks were missing, so I ran the following which fixed everything.

for x in $(brew list -1); do brew unlink $x; brew link $x; done

@albertsj1 Interesting. I also had the same problem with every brew installed app. With my situation, my OS was reinstalled.

@albertsj1 Had the same issue after a wonky upgrade to 10.9.4 today. Thanks for your handy one-liner!

@albertsj1 Great Job! Thanks for your solution!

This thread saved me!

Man, was trying to fix someones install of haproxy for ages with a similar issue:

dyld: Library not loaded: @@HOMEBREW_PREFIX@@/lib/libpcre.1.dylib
  Referenced from: /opt/boxen/homebrew/bin/haproxy
  Reason: image not found

In my case it was pcre that was the problem:

brew unlink pcre
brew link pcre

@petems welcome to the club!

Yeah. This seems to be a common problem when there are any major changes/upgrades. Glad to hear you got things working.

Yep, just thought I'd add in my exact issue for SEO purposes (or when I forget about this and end up googling the exact same error 😓)