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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:
Oh, that fixed it! cd rx.app/Contents/MacOS && chmod +x ./rx
fixed it.
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.
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.
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!
Yup! Works for me!
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.