How do I install FeatureBase Community on macOS?
Follow these instructions to install FeatureBase on a macOS environment.
Table of contents
Before you begin
- Learn about FeatureBase Community
Step 1 - Establish the correct release to install
- Open FeatureBase releases on GitHub
- Make note of the:
- version (e.g., 3.32.0)
- kernel =
darwin
- processor (arm or amd)
Step 2 - Download the release
Right-click the appropriate release on the GitHub releases page, then download to your /downloads
directory.
Alternatively, you can download using the terminal.
- Open a terminal
- CD to the
/downloads
directory - Use the correct values for
<version>
,<kernel>
and<processor>
in the following command:
curl -L https://github.com/FeatureBaseDB/featurebase/releases/download/v<version>/featurebase-v<version>-<kernel>-<processor>64.tar.gz -o featurebase.tgz
Step 3: Untar release files
- Open a terminal then create a destination directory for the release:
mkdir featurebase
- CD to your
/downloads
directory then run the following command:
tar xvfz featurebase.tgz -C ~/featurebase
Step 4: Set up featurebase installation directory
CD to the /featurebase
directory.
- Move ingester files to the
/opt
directory
mv featurebase-* opt
- Move application files to the
/idk
directory
mv idk-* idk
Authorize FeatureBase with macOS Gatekeeper system
- Open a Terminal Window
- Run the following command to disable the quarantine flag:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine opt/featurebase
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine idk/*