使用 Homebrew 安装 python3 后，Homebrew 不会在 /usr/bin/local 中创建 python 的符号链接

Question

Background

After running brew install python3 on Mac, I expect there are symbolic of python3 in /usr/local/bin , but three aren't.

Checked with brew info python3 , it shows

python has been installed as /usr/local/bin/python3

Also, python3 is indeed installed in /usr/local/Cellar/python/3.7.7/bin

Could anyone know how to fix this issue without making links to /usr/local/bin manually?

This article in SO reported the same issue, but it has no solution.

Also Found an issue reported.

Update

After running commands below, it does have correct links in /usr/local/bin .

brew uninstall python3
brew install python3

Answer 1

# Overwrite any python 3 brew symlink
brew link --overwrite python3
# Link python3 to python2 using prior symlink to symlink
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3 /usr/local/bin/python