Before installing YugabyteDB, ensure that you have the following available:

• macOS 10.12 or later. If you are on Apple silicon, you need to download the macOS ARM package.

1. Python 3.11. To check the version, execute the following command:

   python --version
   

• wget or curl.

  Note that the following instructions use the wget command to download files. If you prefer to use curl (included in macOS), you can replace wget with curl -O.

  To install wget on your Mac, you can run the following command if you use Homebrew:

  brew install wget