Trying out pyenv ... again
I think I first tried pyenv probably sometime in late 2022. I saw some recent stuff about it on Mastadon and thought I'd give it another go.
I read through the installation instructions at the ReadMe at the repo and checked to see if it was already installed (spoiler alert it was!)
I noticed that I was not on the current version (2.3.36 at the time of this writing) and decided that I needed to update it.
With the update out of the way I tried to install a version of Python with it, starting at Python 3.10 (because why not?!)
pyenv install 3.10
But when I ran it I got an error like this:
BUILD FAILED (OS X 12.3.1 using python-build 20180424)
Which lead me here. There were some comments people left about deleting directories (which always makes me a bit uneasy ... especially when they're in /Library/)
Reading further down I did come across this comment
I had to uninstall and reinstall Home Brew before it returned to work. It concerned the change from Mac Intel to Mac M1(Silicon). See the article below from Josh Alletto to find out why. https://earthly.dev/blog/homebrew-on-m1/#:~: text=On%20Intel%20Macs %2C%20Homebrew%2C%20and, %2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fbin%20.&text= Homebrew%20chose%20%2Fusr %2Flocal%2F,in%20your %20PATH%20by%20default.
The link in the comment was a bit malformed, but I was able to clean it up and get this link. This is where I re-discovered1 that the way Homebrew is installed changed with the transition to the Apple Silicon.
Now, I got a new M2 MacBook Pro in March 2023 and since I don't use Homebrew a lot AND I didn't really use pyenv for anything, I hadn't noticed that stuff kind of changed.
Following the steps outlined I was able to redo my Homebrew and now have pyenv working. Now, the only question is will it's use 'stick' with me this time?
- earlier in the day I was working through a post by Marijke about Caddy and there was a statement in her write up about how Homebrew on the M1 Macs stored files in a different directory, but when I ran the command to check where Homebrew was pointing I got the Intel location, not the Apple Silicon location ... this really should have been my first clue that some part of my set up was incorrect ↩︎