I get a slightly different error message with a warning line: warning: Failed to patch the install name of the dynamic library for /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13. This may cause issues when building Python native …

[image] UCM: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles And removing that folder makes no difference? If you choose to install an older release like 24.11, does that fail in the same way?

Re: And removing that folder makes no difference? On the first time the “1) Latest Anki (just press enter)” option in the installer is ran, I can see the python 3.15 download happening and the following message appears (i.e. the same one without the warning line): error: Querying Python at `/Users…

[image] UCM: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13 If you try to run that from your terminal, does Python start correctly, or exit with signal 9? What does file /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProg…

Yes sorry I meant identical except the corresponding python version. If I run that from the terminal I get: zsh: killed The file command reports: /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64 T…

I tried running with an older macOS in a VM and got that “warning: Failed to patch the install name” line, but the install proceeded fine. It probably won’t help, but please test again with the new launcher in the 25.07.1 release. If you get the same error, I think we need to reproduce it outside of…

Didn’t help, however weirdly now I get a duplicated warning message: warning: Failed to patch the install name of the dynamic library for /Users/username/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13. This may cause issues when building Python …

Please try the following commands in Terminal.app. How does what you see differ? dae@mb:~% curl -LO https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.7.19/uv-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current …

No difference from what I gather. (base) user@users-MacBook-Pro testanki % curl -LO https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/download/0.7.19/uv-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload …

Interesting. This is an updated launcher built with 0.7.19. Does it work any better for you? You may need to remove your AnkiProgramFiles folder first. [image] Release mac launcher test · ankitects/anki Please ignore this unless you've been asked to try it. …

Same thing. Installed Python 3.13.5 in 2.85s + cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none warning: Failed to patch the install name of the dynamic library for /Users/user/Library/Application Support/AnkiProgramFiles/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13. This may cause issues when buildin…

Anki 25.07 fails to launch on macOS

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Danika_Dakika August 3, 2025, 4:58pm 19

Possibly related [but i’m not certain enough to merge the threads yet]?

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