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Having trouble with installing '.app' and '.dmg' file on Mac.

A topic by conceptbug95 created Jun 24, 2020 Views: 492 Replies: 3

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conceptbug953 years ago

MacBook Pro 16-inch 2019

macOS Catalina (v10.15.5)

I have bought both classic version and recharged version of FPVFreerider.

Files ending in '.app' is not installed on my Mac. (Windows are perfectly working)

Strangely, Demo of Recharged version, ending in '.dmg' is perfectly installed just in 30 seconds.

I just downloaded the file and dragged the '.app' file to my Applications directory, but the icon didn't appear in Launchpad and prompted with "cannot open this application" when I double clicked the icon.

I accepted these apps in security and privacy, system settings.

Please give me an advice about installing these apps in macOS.

FPV FreeriderDeveloper3 years ago

It is a known issue with recent versions of MacOS. It is very picky which applications can be run.

You can try one of the following solutions:

(Method 4 usually works for most people)

1. If you unzip the file on a Windows machine and transfer the file to your Mac with a USB stick it should work.

(I have also heard that it works if you download the zip using Chrome on MacOS and extract with Keka)

2. MacOS is picky about which programs can be run (the first time) by double-clicking. To run a program that says "this can't be opened", right-click the icon and choose "Open". You'll be given an option to open the program, and from then on it won't bug you.

3. For Mac's having trouble installing FPV Freerider try going to the Mac's System Preferences>Security and Privacy> General Tab and check the box "Anywhere" to see if this allows your Mac to install FPV Freerider.

4. For anybody who is still having the issue of the simulator not opening you need to open up terminal and type sudo chmode +x (fpvfreerider.app) and that should do it.
It should look something like:
chmod +x "/Applications/FPVFreerider.app/Contents/MacOS/FPVFreerider"
or
~ chmod +x /Applications/FPVFreerider/Contents/MacOS/FPVFreerider
(adding sudo at the start if needed).

After that you might need to go to your Mac menu System Preferences>Security & Privacy

If it says something like "Freerider was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer" you need to select "Open Anyway".

Hope that helps!

conceptbug953 years ago

Thank you!

With your 4th solution now it is working.

On Ubuntu Linux I'm struggling yet, same chmod command gonna work because I confirmed that file's executive permission is absent.

FPV FreeriderDeveloper3 years ago

Glad you managed to get it working!

Hope you will be able to get it running on Linux too.

You can see the install instructions for Linux for some possible clues:

FPV Freerider is distributed as a Linux executable, not a package. Create a "bin" folder in your home directory (this isn't necessary but traditionally binary executables go in the bin folder). Unzip the FPVFreerider_linux.zip file into that directory. Open FPVFreerider. Right click on the appropriate executable for your system (32 or 64 bit), and select 'Properties'. Click the 'Permissions' tab. At the bottom of that tab check: 'Execute: Allow executing file as a program'. Now when you want to play, just double click that icon.

(When using a Taranis on Linux, the joystick driver by default adds some dead zone to the sticks around their center position. Running "$ jscal -c /dev/input/js0" and recalibrating the Taranis within Linux should remove the dead zone. Source: Joystick Emulation - Manual for OpenTX ).

Tip: If you are not able to run the sim on your Linux machine you might have to force Open GL:

user@computer:~$ ./FPVFreerider.x86_64 -force-opengl

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