issue with opening lyx

Dr Eberhard W Lisse nospam at lisse.NA
Wed Dec 7 23:18:07 UTC 2022


After an unsuccessful launch open Systems Preferences -> Privacy &
Security  and you might find a butto to allow it anyway.

You can also issue

	sudo spctl --master-disable

it will ask you for your password and you must be an admin for this.

If you try again it should go through.

el






On 04/12/2022 05:23, Patryk Kozlowski wrote:
> i want to use lyx fairly frequently, but everytime i restart my computer
> i am not able to load the application on my mac big sur 11.3.1. when i
> try to open lyx, i get the dialog: 
> 
> *“LyX.app” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious
> software.*
> 
> This software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more
> information.
> 
> 
> This item is on the disk image “LyX-2.3.6.2+qt5-12-x86_64-cocoa
> (2).dmg”. Chrome downloaded this disk image today at 5:23 PM from
> *www.lyx.org <http://www.lyx.org>*.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there any way to get rid of this message?
> 
> 




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