Set up Brew on M1 Mac

How to install brew on M1 Mac

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Installing Brew on your Mac is important because it helps you install other things! Start by running the command below (also found on the brew homepage)

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Brew is now installed! Great, but how do we use it?

zsh: command not found: brew

Now we have to add brew to our path. If you have not added anything to your path yet, you will have to create a .zprofile or .zshrc file. Navigate to Users/your-name/ and look for .zprofile (you will have to “show hidden files”) which you can do by pressing CMD + Shift + . If you have one, great! If not create it, and add the path to the Brew bin folder. Brew landed in opt/homebrew/bin for me, so your .zprofile would look like this:

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH
export PATH=/opt/homebrew/sbin:$PATH

Congrats, you can now brew! Most tools you install via Homebrew should now just work, although I have run into a few that install themselves in strange locations which means you will have to manually add them to your $PATH to get them to work. I’m guessing this is the next command you need 🧐

brew install git

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