I’ve jumped into the Apple Silicon bandwagon as it appears to me it’s gotten ahead of Intel. And since the Asahi project has made a lot of progress in getting GNU/Linux operational in Apple Silicon, I got interested more. Lastly, it seems to me that Apple MacBook Air M2s are getting low in supply, thus I snatched one when I was able to. One of the first things I did with my MacBook Air M2 is to setup Python Pelican in MacOS. Below is my procedure for this.

• Run terminal.
• Run “python3 –version” to check if Python is installed.
• If python3 is not yet installed:

Execute command: xcode-select –install

Click “Install” when pop up dialog asks you “Would you like to install the tools now?”

Click “Done” when installation is finished.

• Edit .zshrc in the home directory of your user. Put the following line: alias python=/usr/bin/python3
• Exit your shell. Then open a new shell. Execute “python -V” to verify if the installation is successful.
• Execute: python -m pip install “pelican[markdown]”
• Edit .zshrc again. Append: export PATH=/Users/<your user name>/Library/Python/3.9/bin:$PATH
• Exit the shell. Pelican should be ready now. Open a new shell should you want to execute it.
• HINT: If you need tags enabled in the Gumby theme, execute: python -m pip install pelican-tag-cloud