Need help with installation on Mac M1 BigSur

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Hi

I like to try out beets but not sure how to install on Mac M1 Big Sur. The guide says can install using homebrew - then only show how to install python.

When I tried “brew install beets” - response is “Warning: No available formula or cask with the name “beets”. Did you mean bee?”

Appreciate any help. Thx
Sam

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Have you installed Home Brew already? On the home page you’ll see instructions:

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

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Try a little farther down on the page, where it says:

If you have pip, just say pip install beets (or pip install --user beets if you run into permissions problems).

4

Thx for the reply. I already have homebrew setup. Beets documentation doesn’t describe how to install beets via homebrew.

Appreciate if you can tell me if you know how.

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Thx for the reply Adrian. Unfortunately installing latest python from python.org is experimental for Apple Silicon M1 - so would prefer to stick with homebrew method.

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To clarify, the “Homebrew method” would mean installing Python using Homebrew and then following those instructions to install beets, i.e., something like pip install beets.

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Thanks Adrian for clarifying this. :slight_smile:

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I can’t tell from your post if you’ve met with success. What do you get if you enter:

beet config --path

or

beet version

Have you started to put together a config file yet?