Can't Install on MacOS 12 (Monterey)

[TheDiscordian]

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Installation method

GitHub releases page

Version

v0.9.1 darwin arm64

Config

No response

Description

On MacOS 12 /usr/local/bin doesn't exist it seems, so I can't run install.sh.

disco@smol go-ipfs % sudo ./install.sh
mv: rename ./ipfs to /usr/local/bin/ipfs: No such file or directory
mv: fastcopy: open() failed (to): /usr/bin/ipfs: Operation not permitted
We cannot install ./ipfs in one of the directories /usr/local/bin /usr/bin
It seems that we do not have the necessary write permissions.
Perhaps try running this script as a privileged user:

    sudo ./install.sh

disco@smol go-ipfs % ls /usr/local/bin
ls: /usr/local/bin: No such file or directory

P.S. The new Github submission form made writing this harder.

[lidel]

I'm bumping this in priority – @johnnymatthews hit the same problem.
We need to fix this before go-ipfs 0.13 ships, as we ask users to run the script in https://docs.ipfs.io/install/command-line/#macos

The script source is https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/blob/master/cmd/ipfs/dist/install.sh – someone needs to update it to properly handle missing /usr/local/bin

[SgtPooki]

Anecdotal, but go-ipfs daemon installed fine for me on Monterey:

╰─ ✔ ❯ ipfs daemon                                                                                                                5.82   30.7G   15%   100%  ─╯
Initializing daemon...
go-ipfs version: 0.12.0-06191dfef
Repo version: 12
System version: arm64/darwin
Golang version: go1.17.6
Swarm listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/4001/quic
Swarm listening on /ip4/192.168.1.227/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip4/192.168.1.227/udp/4001/quic
Swarm listening on /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
Swarm listening on /ip6/::1/udp/4001/quic
Swarm listening on /p2p-circuit
Swarm announcing /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip4/127.0.0.1/udp/4001/quic
Swarm announcing /ip4/192.168.1.227/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip4/192.168.1.227/udp/4001/quic
Swarm announcing /ip4/97.113.157.124/udp/4001/quic
Swarm announcing /ip6/::1/tcp/4001
Swarm announcing /ip6/::1/udp/4001/quic
API server listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/5001
WebUI: http://127.0.0.1:5001/webui
Gateway (readonly) server listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/8080
Daemon is ready

[SgtPooki]

@TheDiscordian hey, does the brew formula work? it also installs from source: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/ipfs.rb

try brew install ipfs

That formula is using commit 7b096d6f28b2c338b27ae4bc89e2d5d948f70530ec03aef8d623b5162bf3f33c

[ajnavarro]

I was not able to reproduce the problem on a virtual machine, so I rented a Scaleway native M1 computer: https://www.scaleway.com/en/hello-m1/ and I got the error.

Tentative fix here: #8934

After creating directories using the install.sh script, everything worked as expected.

[TheDiscordian]

@SgtPooki Sorry for late response, forgot I opened this issue. Does that homebrew run the install.sh script?

@ajnavarro #8934 lgtm, that's exactly the type of fix I was looking for.