Updating install prerequisites for newer macOS & ARM Macs. (#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: