rbreu/beeref

Beeref doesn't open on MacOS

LeeHunter opened this issue · 3 comments

LeeHunter commented

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Drag BeeRef to the Applications folder.
  2. Attempt to open but receive message "The application BeeRef.app can't be opened".
  3. Check in the Securities and Privacy system settings but there is no option to allow.

Running MacOS Ventura.

Wiredframe commented

Same for me unfortunately. Was looking for a PureRef alternative.

lincerely commented

It seems the binary inside the app package doesn't set the execute permission.

To fix this:

(Assume you download the zip file from release page and extracted it.)

Open terminal and do:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/BeeRef-0.2.0-macos/BeeRef.app/Contents/MacOS/BeeRef-0.2.0
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2gn commented

It seems the binary inside the app package doesn't set the execute permission.

To fix this:

(Assume you download the zip file from release page and extracted it.)

Open terminal and do:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/BeeRef-0.2.0-macos/BeeRef.app/Contents/MacOS/BeeRef-0.2.0

You also need to approve execution by yourself.
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To do this, click on the OK button in the dialog, then open System Preferences, click on the "Privacy & Security" tab, scroll down and click on the "Allow anyway" button and try to launch it again.

Encountered this problem when packaging this application for homebrew-cask repository.

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