Installing chmutil on Mac

There are multiple ways to install chmutil via the pip command. Options 1 and 2 install chmutil into the main Python installation. Option 3 installs chmutil into directories under the current user's home directory.

Open a terminal and choose one of the install options below:

Option 1) Installation as root

This option requires the user to be root before running pip command.

pip install chmutil

Option 2) Installation via sudo

sudo pip install chmutil

Option 3) Installation without super user access

pip install --user chmutil

If this option is used then the following must be added to the user's path:

~/.local/bin

NOTE:

If installation fails with error about upgrading/installing the six package one can get around this by directly installing the six package as shown below and then running one of the options above.

curl https://pypi.python.org/packages/b3/b2/238e2590826bfdd113244a40d9d3eb26918bd798fc187e2360a8367068db/six-1.10.0.tar.gz#md5=34eed507548117b2ab523ab14b2f8b55 > six-1.10.0.tar.gz
tar -zxf six-1.10.0.tar.gz
cd six-1.10.0
sudo python setup.py install

Other solutions to this issue can also be found here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29485741/unable-to-upgrade-python-six-package-in-mac-osx-10-10-2