Apple M1 MacBook App Installation Guide
Tags: m1, macbook, homebrew, install
Published: 2021-01-12 20:50:08

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If you're a **Mac lover** and developer like me I bet you just assumed that the new M1 chip was compatible with your developer lifestyle. Well if you have tried to install Homebrew recently you learned that we were sadly mistaken in assuming the new M1 chip was out-of-the-box developer-friendly but, fret not. Follow my instructions below and you should be up and running in no time at all. 

Let it be known that you will **100%** need to install Rosetta2 before you can install Homebrew. And you should also know that Homebrew will be the easiest way to install Intel apps on your machine. The reason you will need to install Rosetta2 first is that Rosetta2 will allow you to run the Intel apps on your computer. At the time of writing this post, M1 Macs do not run Intel apps on their own. I will link an article for you directly below that gives detailed instructions on how to install Rosetta2 on your machine. 

Do not, **I REPEAT, DO NOT** try to install Homebrew before you install Rosetta2. Side note this install might take a while. So pour a cup of coffee and wait.
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[How To Install Rosetta2](https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2020/11/17/installing-rosetta-2-on-apple-silicon-macs/)


Now that you installed Rosetta2, you will need to follow the steps in the video directly below to install Homebrew. Please note that I did follow the steps in the video, but I did not use the audited script provided by the YouTuber. I will post the command I used below instead. One more thing, this one **WILL for sure** take a while. So pull up a chair, and wait. 
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[How To Install Homebrew](https://youtu.be/nv2ylxro7rM)

**My Script To Install Homebrew**
```
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)
```

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**NOTE:** Why didn't I use the audited script provided in the Youtuber's description? I did try to use it, but it just didn't work for me. So I used the line of code posted above that a fellow developer sent to me. Once I got Homebrew installed I first used it to install Python3. To do that I entered the following commands into the terminal one at a time.
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```
brew doctor *(return)

brew search python3 *(return) 

brew install python3 *(return)

```

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Python installed fine for me after that. **THERE you have it!** You're Homebrew should be ready to install whatever you need it to now. So do you still need more help setting up the rest of your packages? Then watch the videos below next. The videos will walk you through the rest of the M1 Macbook setup. 

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**More Videos:** I have a few more resources for you to install **even** more Intel apps on your machine. Just skip the lengthy intros, unless you like that sort of thing. ;) 
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Thanks for reading! 
**(waves bye)

Kodebae 😉

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### Links —>
[M1 Setup for Software Engineering](https://youtu.be/Pc8C1qJVzDI)

[How To Install Intel Apps M1 Mac](https://youtu.be/b_S3CjGRQis)