Installing Brew

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Every developer knows about the Homebrew package manager that makes it really easy to install, update applications, and utilities on a Mac. The installation of homebrew remains the same for the new macOS version BigSur, but we will explain how to it anyway in this article.

Installation Instructions for a supported install of Homebrew are on the homepage. This script installs Homebrew to its preferred prefix (/usr/local for macOS Intel, /opt/homebrew for Apple Silicon) so that you don’t need sudo when you brew install. It is a careful script; it can be run even if you have stuff installed in /usr/local already. Homebrew is a package manager for MAC OS X. Using Homebrew you can directly download and install many open source software and unix tools. Again instead of downloading.dmg files and moving the applications you may use Homebrew Cask to install these applications. Jul 10, 2017 Once the “press 1 to continue” text appears, it’s time to install the Homebrew Channel and BootMii. Installing the Homebrew Channel and BootMii. The HackMii installer is currently at version 1.2. It allows you to do two things, install the all-important HBC and optionally, BootMii. We recommend both. There are two primary ways to install software from the Tap. Kegs use the default brew install command while Casks have their own sub-command: brew install -cask. Currently, all the components in the Tap are pre-installed in the macOS AMIs that AWS offers.

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Note for ARM processors users

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If your Mac uses the Apple Silicon (M1 Chip), you will have a problem with the installation till the date of publication of this article. You can read in this another article how to solve the issue of Homebrew that doesn't run on the M1 chip.

If your processor has an Intel-based processor, then you can follow the tutorial without any inconvenience (which is short anyway).

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Installing Homebrew

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Start by opening the Terminal and start the homebrew setup by simply downloading the installation script of homebrew with curl and then running it with bash. You can easily do this with a single command like this:

The installation script does a variety of stuff as setting the installation directory and so on. After running the command, the terminal will probably prompt for your password if it's required. Then, the installation will take a while and once it finishes, you can easily verify if it works running the following instruction:

How To Install Homebrew (brew) On M1 Mac | Code2care

The command should generate the following output:

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Happy coding ❤️!