macOS 0.3 zipped Release won't open on Catalina

cloudhead / rx

👾 Modern and minimalist pixel editor

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macOS 0.3 zipped Release won't open on Catalina #46

Closed simlay closed 4 years ago

simlay commented 4 years ago

Hi! This is a pretty cool project and I was gonna test it out and ran into this:

I downloaded https://github.com/cloudhead/rx/releases/download/v0.3.0/rx-0.3.0-x86_64.app.zip as found on https://rx.cloudhead.io/.

I tried right click->open as well as just regularly double clicking but got the following error.

cloudhead commented 4 years ago

Hmm that's unfortunate - does it give no other information? Looking around, some people recommend doing a chmod +x on the binary, inside the .app bundle. :thinking:

simlay commented 4 years ago

Oh, that fixed it! cd rx.app/Contents/MacOS && chmod +x ./rx fixed it.

cloudhead commented 4 years ago

Ok, after investigating more - it seems like depending on how you unzip the .app, it may or may not end up executable! This is probably why it's a bad idea to distribute as a .zip.

If I unzip by double-clicking, all good. If I unzip with unzip on the CLI, it's not executable.

simlay commented 4 years ago

Hmm. Initially, I unzipped via the chrome "open" functionality (click on the downloaded file in chrome) which ideally runs the same way that double click works in finder. After more testing though, it's not an executable when I unzip via unzip in bash or double clicking. I think that most applications are distributed as .dmg, probably for reasons similar to this.

cloudhead commented 4 years ago

I see.. I've created a .tar.gz, since that preserves the executable bit, and link that one instead from the website. Hopefully that works for everyone!

simlay commented 4 years ago

Yup! Works for me!