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Fixing zsh command not found: brew? (installing Homebrew)


I am trying to install Homebrew onto my M1 Mac. My default shell is zsh and I want to keep it that way. I ran: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

and it said the installation was successful however after trying the command brew doctor and brew help both returned the error zsh: command not found: brew

I don't know a whole lot about shells or programming so anything I can try would be helpful.

I then was about to try un/re installing it and ran: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall)" but a warning came up to migrate to this command:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/uninstall.sh)"

this leads me to believe maybe it is just located in the wrong shell?


Solution

  • The bash deprecation warning from macOS can safely be ignored, or you can add export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1 to ~/.bashrc` to permanently silence it.

    The initial brew setup script you're using was deprecated, you'll want to use /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)". I've skimmed that script and I think it's actually zsh compatible too, but not 100% sure. This will set it up to be accessible by any shells, as long as you have /usr/local/bin in your PATH. (export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" in your ~/.zshrc, or path+=/usr/local/bin to use the zsh-specific syntax).

    If you run which zsh you should still see some output; if your default shell did get changed some, you can change it back using chsh -s /bin/zsh.

    EDIT:

    I missed that you said you have an M1 Mac. According to the install script, the brew prefix is /opt/homebrew on ARM-based Macs (apparently this is to work around needing sudo for operations in /usr/local). I don't have a new Mac to test with, but adding path+=/opt/homebrew/bin to a new file at ~/.zshrc should to the trick.