Azure-cli: Homebrew Installed Azure CLI not working - /usr/local/bin/az: line 6: python3: command not found

Created on 2 Apr 2018 · 2Comments · Source: Azure/azure-cli

installed azure-cli via homebrew , no matter what az command I run , I get this error.

eg.

/usr/local/bin/az: line 6: python3: command not found

some more info :

```brew info azure-cli
azure-cli: stable 2.0.30 (bottled), HEAD
Microsoft Azure CLI 2.0
https://docs.microsoft.com/cli/azure/overview
/usr/local/Cellar/azure-cli/2.0.30 (11,302 files, 56.6MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2018-04-02 at 11:35:12
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/azure-cli.rb
==> Dependencies
Required: openssl ✔, python ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
/usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d

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slootzky

Most helpful comment

Thanks for the direction.
managed to solve it with brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies python and then brew update && brew install python

slootzky on 3 Apr 2018

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Is python3 available on the machine?
Try brew doctor to check brew.
Also, possibly you may need to do brew link python if python3 still isn't found.