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@vikingOSX answered some of my question earlier but I still cant get the command line to work properly.
I re-installed home brew in the hopes of re-installing git. I used this command from the terminal:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
IT worked and installed brew. Yet when I attempt to run:
brew install git
I got:
zsh: command not found: brew
Any tips?
Many thanks
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 13.0
On M1 Macs, home brew expects to install packages in the /opt/homebrew directory tree, and on Intel Macs, it still uses the /usr/local directory tree. The ownership of either architecture installation should be yourname:admin.
You need to place /opt/homebrew/bin in your PATH statement in the ~/.zshrc so it knows where to find /opt/homebrew/bin/brew.
export PATH=".:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
and once you save the ~/.zshrc file, you can issue the following commands:
source ~/.zshrc
brew update
brew upgrade
brew info git
brew install git
and a handy Zsh alias that you put in ~/.zshrc:
alias brew_deps='brew deps --tree --installed "$@"'
so that when you issue:
brew_deps git
you will see:
On M1 Macs, home brew expects to install packages in the /opt/homebrew directory tree, and on Intel Macs, it still uses the /usr/local directory tree. The ownership of either architecture installation should be yourname:admin.
You need to place /opt/homebrew/bin in your PATH statement in the ~/.zshrc so it knows where to find /opt/homebrew/bin/brew.
export PATH=".:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
and once you save the ~/.zshrc file, you can issue the following commands:
source ~/.zshrc
brew update
brew upgrade
brew info git
brew install git
and a handy Zsh alias that you put in ~/.zshrc:
alias brew_deps='brew deps --tree --installed "$@"'
so that when you issue:
brew_deps git
you will see:
Hmmmm I do this in terminal:
cd ~
LS -a
I see .zsh_history and .zsh_sessions but I dont see .zshrc. Is it possibly somewhere else?
I do a search on the entire mac and it doesnt show up.
OK - I dont think I understand what you are saying...
I have a file in ~ called '.zshrc'
that file contains just one line:
export PATH=".:/opt/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
yet when I say 'source ~/.zshrc' it tells me
'zsh: no such user or named directory: .'
when I try 'source ~zshrc' (which makes sense to mebecause that file is in ~) it tells me:
'zsh: no such user or named directory: zshrc'
and
if I simply say:
zsh -v
I get an entire screen of output. I would assume that means that it can find zsh - yet it doesnt like the source command....
Furtther reply - looks like I got it to work.
I ran brew update and THEN 'source ~./zshrc'
then
brew update
brew upgrade
brew install git
It installed git. I dont understand the
'alias brew_deps='brew deps --tree --installed "$@"'
Command that you mention
You are welcome. That alias command just shows you what the package dependency tree looks like. It doesn't perform an install. Useful info before you install a package…
Once you have that alias setup in your ~/.zshrc file, and source it, then you can enter the alias command as I showed it above.
I update or upgrade my operating system and nothing really changes other than perhaps the version of the Zsh shell or the version of homebrew that gets installed. No functionality changes.
Thanks so much - this is an M1 mac so I will give that a try.
@vikingOSX thanks again for your help - greatly appreciated.
I am always reluctant to upgrade the OS for exactly these kinds of scenarios. You baled me out - thanks so much.
-Mark
Still cant get zsh to work :-(