Azure CLI install: Homebrew or FU
October 10, 2024 Leave a comment
The only official installer for Azure CLI for macOS is Homebrew. This is just wrong because there is no official package manager for macOS and while it may be that Microsoft and GitHub like Homebrew, it should not be the only option. Microsoft also mentions there is another option:
If you can’t use homebrew to install the Azure CLI in your environment, it’s possible to use the manual instructions for Linux. This process isn’t officially maintained to be compatible with macOS. Using a package manager such as Homebrew is always recommended.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-macos#other-installation-methods
Unfortunately this has not worked for years and does not even work on linux. It’a just an absurdly hostile position to take. I almost just dropped to using an orbstack linux VM but I gave it one more college try to fix Microsoft’s script to work with MacPorts, which is not difficult. You need to install python3, pip3, py-virtualenv (which will be @20.26.6 at this writing) as pre-requisites and just patch out Microsofts hamfisted use of an ancient 16.7.11 version of virtualenv from July 20, 2021 without it’s dependencies!
Yes, Microsoft is not really trying because I was able to make this work pretty easily.
With MacPorts on macOS 15, install python312. Install py-pip. Install py-virtualenv.
sudo port select --set pip3 pip312
sudo port select --set python3 python312
sudo port select --set python python312
sudo port select --set virtualenv virtualenv312
curl -L -O https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCli
Edit the InstallAzureCli script to remove the last part of the script that runs the python script the bash script downloads.
# python_cmd=python3
# if ! command -v python3 >/dev/null 2>&1
# then
# if command -v python >/dev/null 2>&1
# then
# python_cmd=python
# else
# echo "ERROR: python3 or python not found."
# echo "If python is available on the system, add it to PATH."
# exit 1
# fi
# fi
#
# chmod 775 $install_script
# echo "Running install script."
# $python_cmd $install_script < $_TTYEdit install.py to change the create_virtualenv(temp_dir, install_dir) function to use the system virtualenv.
def create_virtualenv(tmp_dir, install_dir):
# download_location = os.path.join(tmp_dir, VIRTUALENV_ARCHIVE)
# print_status('Downloading virtualenv package from {}.'.format(VIRTUALENV_DOWNLOAD_URL))
# response = urlopen(VIRTUALENV_DOWNLOAD_URL)
# with open(download_location, 'wb') as f: f.write(response.read())
# print_status("Downloaded virtualenv package to {}.".format(download_location))
# if is_valid_sha256sum(download_location, VIRTUALENV_ARCHIVE_SHA256):
# print_status("Checksum of {} OK.".format(download_location))
# else:
# raise CLIInstallError("The checksum of the downloaded virtualenv package does not match.")
# print_status("Extracting '{}' to '{}'.".format(download_location, tmp_dir))
# package_tar = tarfile.open(download_location)
# package_tar.extractall(path=tmp_dir)
# package_tar.close()
# virtualenv_dir_name = 'virtualenv-'+VIRTUALENV_VERSION
# working_dir = os.path.join(tmp_dir, virtualenv_dir_name)
# cmd = [sys.executable, 'virtualenv.py', '--python', sys.executable, install_dir]
# exec_command(cmd, cwd=working_dir)
cmd = ["virtualenv", "--python", sys.executable, install_dir]
exec_command(cmd)Now the script will work:
python3 ./install.py
If you are using zsh and you want completions you need to turn on bashcompint.
autoload -Uz bashcompinit
bashcompinit #bash completion support (required for az)
#enable command-line completion for az cli
if [ -f "$HOME"/lib/azure-cli/az.completion ]; then
#requires bash autocompletion: bashcompinit
. "$HOME"/lib/azure-cli/az.completion
fi
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