Mac Command-Line Essentials

Amruta
1 min readDec 19, 2021

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How to get your new Mac OS ready for programming and development:

  1. Install Homebrew

Link: https://brew.sh/

Command:

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

2. Install pip

Command: curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3

3. Install Python Flask

Command: pip3 install flask

4. Install Jupyter Notebook

Command: pip3 install jupyterlab

Or Classic Notebook

Command: pip3 install notebook

5. Install boto3 (AWS SDK for Python)

Command: pip3 install boto3

6. Install AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html

Use GUI Installer to download the .pkg file, and follow the screen instructions. To check if aws is installed correctly, try: aws help

Use Command: aws configure

To configure AWS account using your security credentials.

7. Install wget, youtube-dl and ffmeg

Command: brew install wget

brew install youtube-dl

brew install ffmpeg

8. Install open-cv (Computer Vision Library)

Command: pip3 install opencv-python

9. Install numpy, matplotlib, scikit-image

Command: pip3 install numpy

Command: pip3 install matplotlib

Command: pip3 install scikit-image

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Amruta
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