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Installing chmutil on Mac

Chris Churas edited this page Jul 18, 2017 · 7 revisions

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