Confirm you are using zsh with echo $SHELL, should output /bin/zsh.

If you are using Bash or have Bash installed, your setup will be different. As of MacOS 10.15, ZSH is the default over Bash.

Will prompt installation if not already installed.

Installs automatically with Xcode CLT, but also important to validate installation was successful.

Should see /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git.

Should see /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools.

validate full package installed via iTerm2 with xcode-select -p.This should be installed already via Step 1, but it's important to validate the entire package was installed.

Hopefully you found this post helpful, if you have any questions you can find me on Twitter.Terminal alternative for Mac, recommended to me and I’ve used it for years. So to install the arm64 version of node just run: brew install node since our homebrew install is arm64 any bottles installed from it are also arm64. zshrc or source it ( source ~/.zshrc) so you can run the brew command from anywhere in your terminal. Now either open a new terminal with your updated. If you don't use zsh as your shell then adjust that last command accordingly cd /optĮcho 'export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin: $PATH' > ~/.zshrc Below are the commands to create that folder, set the perms of that folder, then install homebrew and add it to your path. Now, we're going to follow homebrew's recommendation and install homebrew to /opt/homebrew. Open a Terminal and veryify you are not in x86 emulation mode: arch While macOS Big Sur supports x86 emulation via Rosetta 2, let's run native arm64 binaries for maximum speed and minimum power consumption. Want to use Node on your fancy new MacBook with an M1 (aka Apple Silicon, aka ARM) processor? Sure you do.

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