Hello, everyone. I’m having some trouble running the Anki app on macOS Tahoe (version 26.0 running on a M4). I’ve checked for other posts, but although they look similar none covers this specific problem on a macos.
I’m downloading the software from the web app, but I’ve also tried downloading it through ‘brew install --cask anki’ and the problem remains.
The software is downloaded, but every time I open and try to run it, I get this problem. It appears to be a path issue, but I couldn’t make it work by myself.
I confirm that Anki 25.09.2 does run fine on macOS 26.0 (Tahoe). But, I had Anki already installed. I haven’t attempted to perform a fresh installation.
Unfortunately I’ve tried applying the fixes that worked for some people on the thread, but I was unable to make the app run. Even uninstalling conda and installing arm64 version didn’t work
Removing the folder didn’t work - specifically, I’ve trying removing the /uv directory - but every time I launch Anki, it gets created again (and the error persists)
➜ ~ pip install uv
error: externally-managed-environment
× This environment is externally managed
╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try brew install
xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to
install.
If you wish to install a Python library that isn't in Homebrew,
use a virtual environment:
python3 -m venv path/to/venv
source path/to/venv/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install xyz
If you wish to install a Python application that isn't in Homebrew,
it may be easiest to use 'pipx install xyz', which will manage a
virtual environment for you. You can install pipx with
brew install pipx
You may restore the old behavior of pip by passing
the '--break-system-packages' flag to pip, or by adding
'break-system-packages = true' to your pip.conf file. The latter
will permanently disable this error.
If you disable this error, we STRONGLY recommend that you additionally
pass the '--user' flag to pip, or set 'user = true' in your pip.conf
file. Failure to do this can result in a broken Homebrew installation.
Read more about this behavior here: <https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/>
note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages.
hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification.
2nd link:
Removing AnkiProgramFiles before launching it didn’t help, the error remains the same
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Error: Failed to run (2): /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/uv run --no-project --no-config --managed-python --with pip-system-certs,requests[socks] --python 3.13.5 /Applications/Anki.app/Contents/Resources/versions.py: warning: Failed to patch the install name of the dynamic library for /Users/username/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13. This may cause issues when building Python native extensions.
error: Querying Python at `/Users/username/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.13.5-macos-aarch64-none/bin/python3.13` failed with exit status signal: 9 (SIGKILL)
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