Installing brew on M1/M2 ARM Mac

If you have an ARM-based M1 or M2 Apple Silicon Mac and want to install Brew (homebrew) follow the below steps,

1. Open Terminal App,
2. Now run the script:

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

   Source: https://github.com/homebrew/install#uninstall-homebrew

3. Now open .zshrc profile file to set brew PATH permanently,

   nano ~/.zshrc

   Add this line to the file export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH

4. Now reload your shell: source ~/.zshrc
5. Try running brew version command to see if got installed correctly.

% brew --version    
Homebrew 3.5.10
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision ccafaef56d8; last commit 2022-09-04)

If the path is not set correctly or brew is not installed properly you will get an error like,

brew --version
zsh: command not found brew

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