Big Sur 11.2.2: Operation not permitted although Iterm and Terminal have Full disk access

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  •  01-06-2021
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Question

On Big Sur 11.2.2, Iterm and terminal are both granted "Full disk access" in system preferences > security & privacy > privacy

I tried to install a third party app using

sudo wget https://github.com/Battleman/zoomdl/releases/latest/download/zoomdl -O /usr/bin/zoomdl

But I got the error

/usr/bin/zoomdl: Operation not permitted

I also downloaded the repo locally and granted full disk access to the zoomdl executable but got same error

What should I do?

Was it helpful?

Solution

You are supposed to install third party software to /usr/local/bin. This is the default used by most Unix installers and build systems. (Alternative directories in the root for example under /opt can be used if you have fu;ll control of how the software is built)

The folder /usr/bin is protected by SIP as it contains software supplied by Apple as part of macOS (In Big Sur this is even more difficult if at all possible to alter)

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