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Update Platform Prerequisites for macOS Big Sur (ARM Specific) #9971

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Updated installation dependencies for newer macOS versions and ARM Macs. Contributed by Luke Walsh.
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Installing prerequisites on macOS:

You may need to install the latest Xcode developer tools:
```sh
xcode-select --install
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install virtualenv
brew install pkg-config libffi
```

On ARM-based Macs you may need to explicitly install libjpeg which is a pillow dependency. You can use Homebrew (https://brew.sh):
```sh
brew install jpeg
```

On macOS Catalina (10.15) you may need to explicitly install OpenSSL
via brew and inform `pip` about it so that `psycopg2` builds:

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