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I have been searching for answers for the past hour, but all explanations seem to be given under the assumption that its readers are not total noobs, which I am. So please don't tell me this answer has been posted somewhere, everyone seems to be saying different things.

I'm trying to follow this tutorial. If you look here, there is someone else doing what I'm doing with the same mac version (10.8.5) and everything.

So I have to create the .bashrc file seeing as it does not exist at my ~ location (which wasn't mentioned in the tutorial at all, so I probably slipped up at this point). So I went into textEdit and created an empty .bashrc file, and just added

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

like it says to in the tutorial. Then I move on to the next step:

$ brew install python

and I get "command not found". So this is my question – why didn't this work? I assume it has to do with my .bashrc file being empty. So I tried filling my .bashrc file with what Peter Party Bus instructed to do (here), but I'm not sure his "typical format of a .bashrc file" is word-for-word exactly what needs to go in it. And then Peter Party Bus goes on to say that I need to put some stuff in "~/.bash_profile"... I don't have that either! Should I just add that code into .profile instead? (I don't have enough rep to comment directly on his answer.) So many questions... Thanks in advance, again sorry for being noob.

Edit, solved: Syntax error. Was typing

$ brew install python

instead of 

brew install python

Thanks Blender

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  • ["Homebrew"](http://brew.sh/) is a separate software package with its own installer. It looks like you are trying to install Python. Have you installed Homebrew first? – Greg Hewgill Dec 13 '13 at 02:05
  • Yes, if you look at the tutorial page I posted, I followed all the instructions (installing homebrew was the first step) – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:11
  • Did you run `ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"` first? – reem Dec 13 '13 at 02:11
  • Have you opened and closed Terminal or tried running `source ~/.bashrc`? Your PATH won't update automatically. – Blender Dec 13 '13 at 02:11
  • Yup... "==> Installation successful!" @ sortfiend – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:12
  • What do you get from `which brew`? – reem Dec 13 '13 at 02:13
  • i typed `source ~/.bashrc` and nothing happened (even after re-opening terminal)... @Blender – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:16
  • /usr/local/bin/brew @sortfiend – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:17
  • @user1757149: Nothing should happen on screen. Try running `brew` once more and see if the executable is found. – Blender Dec 13 '13 at 02:17
  • @Blender: By "running `brew`" do you mean `$ brew install python`? Tried that and got "command not found" again. – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:21
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    @user1757149: Now are you literally running `$ brew install python`, or just `brew install python`? – Blender Dec 13 '13 at 02:26
  • @Blender including the $. – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:29
  • omfg. Left out the $ and there we go... I'm gonna go cry now. Thanks Blender. – A__ Dec 13 '13 at 02:31
  • @user1757149: Well, there's your problem. – Blender Dec 13 '13 at 02:31
  • An FYI... OSX will automatically things in `.profile` when you create a new terminal, but not `.bashrc`. You can either put `export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH` in your `.profile` instead, or put `test -e ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc` in your `.profile` so you don't have to do it manually. – SethMMorton Dec 13 '13 at 02:56

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