From ee22165876ce05d2d109e842ff6249da70356bb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Claman Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 11:52:45 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add workaround for SIP --- docs/guides/main.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/guides/main.rst b/docs/guides/main.rst index 4586da8da..c0f85f1af 100644 --- a/docs/guides/main.rst +++ b/docs/guides/main.rst @@ -69,6 +69,14 @@ new versions. .. _@b33ts: http://twitter.com/b33ts +Installing on Mac OS X 10.11 and higher +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Starting with Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Apple has enabled `System Integrity Protection`_ (SIP), and because of SIP, some installation processes may fail, even with ``sudo``, because they intrude on protected areas of the system (if you've installed python via `Homebrew`_ this probably won't happen since the Python libraries are installed to an unrestricted folder). If this does happen, try installing beets only for the current user by running ``pip install --user beets``. It might also be a good idea to add ``~/Library/Python/2.7/bin`` to your ``$PATH``. + +.. _System Integrity Protection: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899 +.. _Homebrew: http://brew.sh + Installing on Windows ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^