Then update brew to the latest list of packages: Or from the developer portal download command_line_tools_for_osx_10.9_september_2014.dmgįollow any instructions if there are problems. If you don't have Xcode installed, you'll need the Xcode command line tools, which can be installed by The most current bash is 4.3.25 Unofficial Update Method: Compile Bash from Source Code using Homebrew
GNU bash, version 3.2.51(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin13)Ĭopyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. To confirm that you are using an outdated bash: Official PatchĪpple has released an Official Bash Security Update Here Checking whether you are vulnerable However, if you are offering web services, you might want to update. If you are not, wait until there is an official security update from Apple. We can confirm if the new version of Python is successfully installed or not by checking the Python version using the same above two commands.First, you don't need to do this unless you are are offering web services to the public internet from your Mac.
We can download the installer and update or install the desired version using the Python installer. We can check the versions of Python 2 and Python 3 installed on Mac using the following commands.Īfter checking the version, the next step is to check if any new version is available on the official website. brew install Python Using Python Installer for macOSīefore updating or installing Python on Mac using the Python installer, the first step is to check the installed version of Python on Mac. Using the following command, we can also install Python 2 on macOS. In case we have to use Python 2 to run a program, we can do so by indicating the default macOS Python binary path /usr/bin/python/ at the start of the code file, as shown below.
echo "alias python=/usr/local/bin/python3.7" > ~/.bashrc Therefore, we can use an alias that will point to the Python version installed by Homebrew to run the Python scripts. cp /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/pythonīut the problem with the above method is that it will be a problem to run some legacy code using Python 2 in the future. Once Python 3 is installed, we can set is as default to run the programs, using the following command. We can also update the Python 3 version from 3.x to 3.y using the following command on the terminal. Once we have Homebrew, we can easily install Python on macOS using the following command on the terminal. If Homebrew is not installed on your Mac, you can install it from here. It helps in installing and updating the software through the terminal.
Homebrew is an open-source package manager software for macOS and Linux. And we can easily update Python on macOS using Homebrew. Therefore another way to update Python to the latest version is by using a single command.
We will also discuss how to install the latest version of Python 3 or Python 2 on Mac.Īlthough the easiest way to update or install the latest version of Python on Mac is by using Python’s official website, we will have to check for future updates manually by checking the site again and again. In this tutorial, we will discuss different methods to update Python on Mac.