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eschwartz · 09-06-2015, 08:27 PM

The command-line tools are installed to your system PATH on Windows and linux, but not on OSX -- because OSX uses Bundles, which have no way to trigger post-install commands I believe.

There used to be an option in Preferences to symlink the tools into /usr/bin on OSX (like the linux installer does) but apparently the method used to get root privileges was deprecated a while back.

The solution is to manually symlink them:

Code:

sudo ln -sf /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/* /usr/local/bin/

Note: My auto-upgrade script does this automatically. See here: https://github.com/eli-schwartz/calibre-installer
Note2: I don't use OSX, I experimentally ported it from the linux script which I do use, but I have received confirmation that it works as expected on OSX.

EDIT: Changed to accommodate System Integrity Protection, introduced in El Capitan.

09-06-2015, 08:27 PM	#6
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	The command-line tools are installed to your system PATH on Windows and linux, but not on OSX -- because OSX uses Bundles, which have no way to trigger post-install commands I believe. There used to be an option in Preferences to symlink the tools into /usr/bin on OSX (like the linux installer does) but apparently the method used to get root privileges was deprecated a while back. The solution is to manually symlink them: Code: sudo ln -sf /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/console.app/Contents/MacOS/* /usr/local/bin/ Note: My auto-upgrade script does this automatically. See here: https://github.com/eli-schwartz/calibre-installer Note2: I don't use OSX, I experimentally ported it from the linux script which I do use, but I have received confirmation that it works as expected on OSX. EDIT: Changed to accommodate System Integrity Protection, introduced in El Capitan. Last edited by eschwartz; 12-11-2015 at 01:41 PM.