issue installing go-ipfs

[RedaBenh]

Cannot install it on mac OS X. try with both go-ipfs_v0.4.13_darwin-386.tar.gz and go-ipfs_v0.4.13_darwin-amd64.tar.gz

$ sudo ./go-ipfs/install.sh
We cannot install ipfs in one of the directories /usr/local/bin /usr/bin

[leerspace]

@RedaBenh What version of Mac OS X are you on?

The installer works just fine for me on macOS High Sierra 10.13.1. There shouldn't be anything stopping you from writing to /usr/local/bin, but /usr/bin is going to be locked down by default on later versions of macOS (even for sudo).

[qezz]

@RedaBenh

You can also check for missing ipfs in ./go-ipfs/ directory

e.g. with this one-liner: if [[ -f ./go-ipfs/ipfs ]]; then; echo "ipfs binary is present"; else; echo "ipfs binary not found"; fi

[victorb]

You need to run install.sh from within the go-ipfs directory.

So, download the tar, extract it and then cd go-ipfs && ./install.sh and it should work fine.

In the next version, it'll be possible to run install.sh from any directory, since #4547 was merged