veronicahurtado / macos-cheat

Quick reference to most common tools when setting up a new Mac

MacOS-cheat sheet

Quick reference to most common tools when setting up a new Mac

Pre-requisites check

zsh --version
git --version
pip --version

Rosetta

Rosetta 2 enables a Mac with Apple Silicon to use apps built for a Mac with an Intel processor.

sudo softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Apple Support

Install Oh-my-zsh

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Oh-my-zsh

Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode

xcode-select --install

Install Homebrew

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

Follow the post-installation steps listed in your Terminal.

Homebrew

Generate SSH Keys

Follow the steps on the GitHub guide

Generate GPG keys

brew install gnupg
gpg --version

Follow the steps on the GitHub guide

AWS CLI

curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.pkg" -o "AWSCLIV2.pkg"
sudo installer -pkg AWSCLIV2.pkg -target /
which aws
aws --version

Installation Guide for version 2 Set up the AWS CLI

NVM

brew update
brew install nvm

Follow the post-installation instructions. e.g. "You should create NVM's working directory if it doesn't exist":

mkdir ~/.nvm

Node

nvm install 20

Composer

A Dependency Manager for PHP

brew install composer

Basic usage

PHP

brew search php
brew install php
php -v

To enable PHP in Apache add the following to httpd.conf and restart Apache: LoadModule php_module /opt/homebrew/opt/php/lib/httpd/modules/libphp.so

<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

Finally, check DirectoryIndex includes index.php DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

The php.ini and php-fpm.ini file can be found in: /opt/homebrew/etc/php/8.3/

To start php now and restart at login: brew services start php Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: /opt/homebrew/opt/php/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize

cd /etc/apache2
sudo vi httpd.conf

MySQL

brew install mysql

We've installed your MySQL database without a root password. To secure it run: mysql_secure_installation

MySQL is configured to only allow connections from localhost by default

To connect run: mysql -u root

To start mysql now and restart at login: brew services start mysql Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: /opt/homebrew/opt/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --datadir=/opt/homebrew/var/mysql

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