Launcher does not launch on Mac due to missing root /

Anki Beta Testing
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I just tried installing 25.07 but the first run failed because it did not find the launcher where it looked. It looks like it needs a / in front of Applications at the start of the path.

If I run the launcher with the full path from the command line it works fine so that was my workaround. After that when I run Anki it starts up fine.

I’m running this on a Mac with Apple Silicon and Sequoia 15.5. Python is version 3.13 from Macports.

Last login: Wed Jun 25 14:35:03 on ttys002
/Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher ; exit;
[oh-my-zsh] Would you like to update? [Y/n]
[oh-my-zsh] You can update manually by running omz update
(venv_m1_313) ➜ ~ Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher ; exit;
zsh: no such file or directory: Applications/Anki.app/Contents/MacOS/launcher

Saving session…completed.
Deleting expired sessions…none found.

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I suspect that’s your oh-my-zsh setup swallowing a character - you can see the slash was provided at the top.

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Good point. I should open a new zsh shell first, or figure out how to skip the upgrade check for non-interactive shells.