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Macos install problem

Open henri9813 opened this issue 9 months ago • 5 comments

Environment, CPU architecture, OS, and Version: MacOS

➜  ~ uname -r
24.4.0
➜  ~ uname -a 
Darwin MacBookPro.localdomain 24.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.4.0: Fri Apr 11 18:33:47 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.101.15~117/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64

Describe the bug

➜  ~ curl https://localai.io/install.sh | sh
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 23389    0 23389    0     0   212k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  213k
  Docker detected.
  Docker detected and no installation method specified. Using Docker.
  Downloading LocalAI v2.28.0...
######################################################################## 100.0%
  Installing to /usr/local/bin/local-ai
install: /usr/local/bin/INS@kEl31B: Permission denied
➜  ~ sudo curl https://localai.io/install.sh | sh
Password:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 23389    0 23389    0     0   247k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  248k
  Docker detected.
  Docker detected and no installation method specified. Using Docker.
  Downloading LocalAI v2.28.0...
######################################################################## 100.0%
  Installing to /usr/local/bin/local-ai
install: /usr/local/bin/INS@Z00jK1: Permission denied

Expected behavior It should workS ? Logs

Additional context

henri9813 avatar Apr 21 '25 18:04 henri9813

honestly, having spent days trying to get it run on MacOS i gave up.. its a really cool project.. but i think macos support is broken big time

leonbollerup avatar May 10 '25 08:05 leonbollerup

This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 5 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Aug 12 '25 02:08 github-actions[bot]

still a subject

henri9813 avatar Aug 12 '25 16:08 henri9813

The main problem here is that there is no way to get GPU support on Mac's with M series GPU.. which is a real shame.. it would be ideal.. but for now we have to settle with LM Studio

leonbollerup avatar Aug 12 '25 16:08 leonbollerup

Same for me...

install: /usr/local/bin/INS@Z00jK1: Permission denied

fantomac avatar Oct 08 '25 06:10 fantomac