“fossil” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.
(1) By anonymous on 2025-04-06 10:23:59 [link] [source]
I'm trying to run the macOS ARM binary (from fossil-mac-arm-202503131034.tar.gz) on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 (23G93) and I get this error:
“fossil” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.
This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.
Safari downloaded this file today at ...
As far as I can tell on https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/14b0ca16418941233ab62d87b558d32328e368b1f0de90e88e86f582528f1fbd/details
the binary is signed.
I guess it has not been notarized?
Regards,
--emi
(2) By anonymous on 2025-04-06 11:38:36 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
I believe it is due to it not being notarized by apple. I don’t remember the exact command but using xattr you can view and change the extended attributes of a file, one of which is a quarantine attribute.
remove at your own risk. after removing you should be able to run it.
(3) By anonymous on 2025-06-01 00:54:42 in reply to 2 [source]
Yeah, it's:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/fossil
I just ran into that today, too :)
Make sure you trust any program you run that on.