You upgraded to a shiny new M1 Mac (MacBook, MacBook Pro or Mac Mini) but now brew is broken on your new ARM machine. You can easily fix this: Depending if you use zsh or bash you need to put the following in either ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc : alias brew='arch -x86_64 brew' If you haven’t installed Rosetta 2 on your machine yet, you will automatically get an installation prompt the first time you run brew.