Installing Homebrew on OS X

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According to the Homebrew site  to install it  I need to type  brew install wget  I get an error message  -bash  brew  command not found  Found this answer   The problem  however  is I don t see brew in  usr local bin  I added the below line to my  bashrc file export PATH  usr local bin  PATH  Still getting the command not found error  How do I install Homebrew on OS X

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If you still get error after running    ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     Then try to download and install command line tool from https   developer apple com download more  for your particular Mac os and Xcode version    Then try to run     usr bin ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     and then  brew install node

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macOS Big Sur Had to add this to Terminal cmd to get Brew running   Add Homebrew to your PATH in  Users  username  zprofile    echo  eval    opt homebrew bin brew shellenv    gt  gt   Users  username  zprofile   eval    opt homebrew bin brew shellenv      username   your local machine username

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I faced the same problem of brew command not found while installing Homebrew on mac BigSur with M1 processor  I - Install XCode if it is not installed yet  II - Select terminal app in Finder  III - RMB click on Terminal and select  quot Get Info quot  IV - Select Open using Rosetta checkbox  V - Close any open Terminal windows  VI - Open a new Terminal window and install Hobebrew   bin bash -c  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install sh  quot   VII - Test Homebrew installation  IIX - Uncheck Open using Rosetta checkbox

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Not sure why nobody mentioned this   when you run the installation command from the official site  in the final lines you would see something like below  and you need to follow the    gt  Next steps     gt  Installation successful      gt  Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate formulae and cask analytics  Read the analytics documentation  and how to opt-out  here    https   docs brew sh Analytics No analytics data has been sent yet  or will be during this  install  run       gt  Homebrew is run entirely by unpaid volunteers  Please consider donating    https   github com Homebrew brew donations     gt  Next steps  - Add Homebrew to your PATH in  Users  YOUR USER NAME   bash profile      echo  eval    opt homebrew bin brew shellenv    gt  gt   Users  YOUR USER NAME   bash profile     eval    opt homebrew bin brew shellenv   This is for bash shell  You will see different steps for every different shell  but the source of the steps are same

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On an out of the box MacOS High Sierra 10 13 6    ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     Gives the following error      curl performs SSL certificate verification by default  using a  bundle     of Certificate Authority  CA  public keys  CA certs   If the default    bundle file isn t adequate  you can specify an alternate file    using the --cacert option       If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in    the bundle  the certificate verification probably failed due to a    problem with the certificate  it might be expired  or the name might    not match the domain name in the URL        If you d like to turn off curl s verification of the certificate  use    the -k  or --insecure  option       HTTPS-proxy has similar options --proxy-cacert and --proxy-insecure    Solution  Just add a k to your Curl Options    ruby -e    curl -fsSLk https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install

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Here s the script       usr bin ruby -e    curl -fsSL   https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install

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Brew has now been rewritten in Bash   bin bash -c  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install sh  quot

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Check if Xcode is installed or not    gcc --version    ruby -e  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install sh  quot     brew doctor    brew update  http   techsharehub blogspot com 2013 08 brew-command-not-found html  quot click here for exact instruction updates quot

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Here is a version that wraps the homebrew installer in a bash function that can be run from your deployment scripts     install homebrew if not present         echo  Checking for homebrew installation      which -s brew     if          0      then         echo  Homebrew not found  Installing             ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install       else         echo  Homebrew already installed  Updating             brew update     fi     And another function which will install a homebrew formula if it is not already installed   brew install                 if brew ls --versions  1  gt   dev null  then         echo  already installed   1      else         echo  Installing forumula   1             brew install  1     fi     Once you have these functions defined you can use them as follows in your bash script   install homebrew if not present brew install wget brew install openssl

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add the following in your terminal and click enter then follow the instruction in the terminal   usr bin ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install

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Open Terminal and put below command  Install    usr bin ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     Uninstall   ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master uninstall     Once install complete after entering brew commands   brew install wget brew install node brew install watchman

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I might be late to the party  but there is a cool website where you can search for the packages and it will list the necessary command to install the stuff  BrewInstall is the website   However you can install wget with the following command   ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install   brew install wget   Hope this helps

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You can install brew using below command   ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     However  while using this you will get warning that it buy homebrew installer is now deprecated  Recommended to use Bash instead      bin bash -c    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install sh

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Following command doesn t work if your are under proxy   ruby -e    curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install    Instead user following -  ruby -e    curl -x http   DOMAIN 5cUSER NAME PASSWORD PROXY PORT -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install     Note we have to use  5c instead of     Similarly if your password has any special character replace it with unicode e g for   use  40 Refer this Unicodes  Replace above command with your own params   DOMAIN - Your Domain  USER NAME - Your User Name  PASSWORD - password  PROXY - 10 10 10 10  PORT - 8080

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How To Set Up Your Mac for Homebrew Step 1 Check you have already Install the Xcode  Run the below command in your terminal  usr bin xcodebuild -version  It will print the below sample output   Xcode 12 3 Build version 12C33  Step 2 Now Open Xcode   Select preferences Select location tab Now in command Line Tool select your Xcode version from dropdown menu  Step 3 In terminal run below command   bin bash -c  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install HEAD install sh  quot   Note   if you have M1 Chip Mac run the below command  close terminal and open the terminal again echo  quot export PATH  opt homebrew bin  PATH quot   gt  gt     zshrc

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It s on the top of the Homebrew homepage  From a Terminal prompt  ruby -e  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install  quot   The command brew install wget is an example of how to use Homebrew to install another application  in this case  wget  after brew is already installed  Edit  Above command to install the Brew is migrated to   bin bash -c  quot   curl -fsSL https   raw githubusercontent com Homebrew install master install sh  quot

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After I had tried everything described  I looked up into the folder permission of brew in  usr local etc   Somehow the permission were changed and I was not able to open the folder  I changed the folder permissions with chmod  with same permissions as the other folders and brew start working

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