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@ddustin ddustin commented Oct 30, 2025

Okay, so I think this is what happened to me:

  1. I had brew installed on my Intel Mac
  2. I got an Apple Silicon Mac
  3. I setup my new Mac by copying over Intel Mac harddrive
  4. I now have two brew's installed on my machine:
    a) /usr/local/bin/brew (for intel macs & cross-compiling)
    b) /opt/homebrew/bin/brew (for (for apple silicon)
  5. The wrong brew was in my path (a)
    Looking through our getting started docs, we seem to reference both /usr/local/... and opt/homebrew/...

Update the installation document to mac this and related issues more clear for new users who might run into this problem.

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This is awesome @ddustin! Thanks so much for this!

@ddustin ddustin force-pushed the ddustin/mac_install_intel branch 2 times, most recently from 4b0d918 to 73c1e9f Compare November 5, 2025 16:38
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Please update now #8647 is merged!

@rustyrussell rustyrussell added this to the v25.12 milestone Nov 7, 2025
Okay, so I think this is what happened to me:
1) I had brew installed on my Intel Mac
2) I got an Apple Silicon Mac
3) I setup my new Mac by copying over Intel Mac harddrive
4) I now have two brew's installed on my machine:
  a) /usr/local/bin/brew (for intel macs & cross-compiling)
  b) /opt/homebrew/bin/brew (for (for apple silicon)
5) The wrong brew was in my path (a)
Looking through our getting started docs, we seem to reference both /usr/local/... and  opt/homebrew/...

Update the installation document to mac this and related issues more clear for new users who might run into this problem.

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@ddustin ddustin force-pushed the ddustin/mac_install_intel branch from 73c1e9f to 7374a05 Compare November 7, 2025 18:11
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ddustin commented Nov 7, 2025

Updated and rebased!

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