*Hello Dev's *, Not a serious post, I am just logging my daily technical challenges here so that i can refer this in future :P
Problem Statement
Recently I downloaded Alacritty Terminal application on my mac via their website and well for my surprise when i tried unpacking the Alacritty.dmg file, my mac refused to open this application stating can't be opened because apple cannot check it for malicious software and to add more to that I couldn't find a straight forward fix for this silly issue on google or their github issue's page
Solution
Anyways! After a long struggle,I finally found the quick fix for this and it's as simple as follows
- Open "System Preferences" / "system Settings" from the Apple menu.
- Go to "Security & Privacy".
- In the "General" tab, you should see a message at the bottom stating that the application was blocked, in my case it says
Alacritty was blocked - Click on the "Open Anyway" button to allow the application to run.
If you prefer to do this via the terminal, you can use the following command to allow applications from unidentified developers:
`sudo spctl --master-disable`
Finding Inference
not really sure what's this deal with security certification between Alacritty and apple for such a highly prominent app that is used by many dev's out there, if anyone knowns do comment down below !!
cheers !!
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