How to modify PATH for Homebrew?

ruby path homebrew
mrdavidjcole picture mrdavidjcole · Apr 27, 2012 · Viewed 113.6k times · Source

Trying to install ruby 1.9.3, read that I need to install homebrew first. Ran brew doctor, and it's giving me a bunch of warnings. One of which is:

Warning: /usr/bin occurs before /usr/local/bin This means that system-provided programs will be used instead of those provided by Homebrew. The following tools exist at both paths:

easy_install
easy_install-2.6

Consider amending your PATH so that /usr/local/bin is ahead of /usr/bin in your PATH.

How does one do what it's asking here?

Answer

fengd picture fengd · Apr 27, 2012

open your /etc/paths file, put /usr/local/bin on top of /usr/bin

$ sudo vi /etc/paths
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
/usr/bin
/bin
/usr/sbin
/sbin

and Restart the terminal, @mmel

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