Homebrew installs wrong minikube (amd64) instead of 'arm64' on m1 Mac

Question

Homebrew (brew install minikube) is installing amd64 'minikube' on Macbook Air with M1. while running any minikube command, it prints following message:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                                                                                          │
│    You are trying to run the amd64 binary on an M1 system.                                               │
│    Please consider running the darwin/arm64 binary instead.                                              │
│    Download at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/v1.25.2/minikube-darwin-arm64    │
│                                                                                                          │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
minikube version: v1.25.2

I think when I installed Homebrew, it wasn't ported to M1, but later I upgraded it, uninstalled and re-installed it, but still same problem.

Any Idea how can I install correct version with Homebrew?

I know, I can install specific arm64 version with sudo install, but I prefer to manage packages with Homebrew.

Ukrainian

Answer 1

Found the issue and posting solution here for someone who might get the same issue. Rare, but could happen... :-)

The problem was that the Terminal application was running under Rosetta. The Homebrew installation script runs command /usr/bin/uname -m to check system architecture. Running this command in a Terminal which runs in Rosetta, returns amd64 architecture, hence homebrew assumes it to be Intel Mac.

To remove Terminal from running under Rosetta, Go To: Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal. Right click on Terminal and select Get Info. Uncheck checkbox: 'Open in Rosetta'. Quit Terminal Application.

Restart Terminal Application and test with command /usr/bin/uname -m. It should print arm64

Note: before doing all this, remove Homebrew and all its files/folders.

Ukrainian

Thank you! After turning off Rosetta, I had to do the following on mac m1 ventura to restore my packages: install homebrew via their web page instructions, run brew bundle dump and then brew bundle in the same directory. – Konstance

Answer 2

I’m using M1 Macbook so some of the pre-requisite was not able to be installed from Homebrew. Here’s what I followed to start the Minikube instance.

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

That will help anyone with the new Architecture of the M1 .After that try run : minikube start --profile test Hope that helps!

Profanity

Answer 3

So brew installed the ARM version of minikube for me (uname -m was working fine), but it appears I had an older x86 version in /usr/local/bin. Removing that fixed it for me. The swap message is a red-herring.

Cranium

Answer 4

I had the same issue. It turned out that multiple version of Minikube was installed on my machine. So, I had to delete them one by one.

In the terminal, type: which minikube and delete the file output file. Repeat that until no version is found. Then use brew install minikube and test: minikube start --profile test If faced problem, run the recommended command:

brew unlink minikube
brew link minikube

Hope this helps.

Triploid