{"id":541,"date":"2025-09-10T21:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/docs\/protolinker-guide\/how-to-install-2\/on-macos\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:10:06","password":"","slug":"on-macos","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/documentation\/on-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"On macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \" style=\"\">To install protolinker on your macOS device, you need to first go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/downloads\/\">downloads<\/a> page and download the DMG file to install it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 950w, https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-2-768x411.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \" style=\"\">When you download protolinker from the internet, macOS may mark the file with the quarantine attribute flag. This is a standard security measure applied to all apps that are not downloaded from the App store. To allow protolinker to run, you will need to remove this flag by running a command on your terminal.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \" style=\"\">Open the terminal in the folder you downloaded the protolinker and run the following command to remove the quarantine flag:<\/p>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><div class=\"copy-to-clipboard\">\n<span>Copied!<\/span><button class=\"click-to-copy-button\" title=\"Copy to clipboard\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" stroke=\"currentcolor\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" fill=\"none\">\n  <path d=\"M12.9975 10.7499L11.7475 10.7499C10.6429 10.7499 9.74747 11.6453 9.74747 12.7499L9.74747 21.2499C9.74747 22.3544 10.6429 23.2499 11.7475 23.2499L20.2475 23.2499C21.352 23.2499 22.2475 22.3544 22.2475 21.2499L22.2475 12.7499C22.2475 11.6453 21.352 10.7499 20.2475 10.7499L18.9975 10.7499Z\"><\/path>\n  <path d=\"M17.9975 12.2499L13.9975 12.2499C13.4452 12.2499 12.9975 11.8022 12.9975 11.2499L12.9975 9.74988C12.9975 9.19759 13.4452 8.74988 13.9975 8.74988L17.9975 8.74988C18.5498 8.74988 18.9975 9.19759 18.9975 9.74988L18.9975 11.2499C18.9975 11.8022 18.5498 12.2499 17.9975 12.2499Z\"><\/path>\n  <path d=\"M13.7475 16.2499L18.2475 16.2499\"><\/path>\n  <path d=\"M13.7475 19.2499L18.2475 19.2499\"><\/path>\n<\/svg><\/button><textarea>xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine protolinker-macos-latest.dmg<\/textarea>\n<\/div><code>xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine protolinker-macos-latest.dmg<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"362\" height=\"258\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-690\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-4.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-4.png 362w, https:\/\/protolinker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-4-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph aligncenter has-text-align-center has-large-font-size aligncenter\" style=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \" style=\"\">After doing that, the quarantine flag will be removed and the protolinker will be able to run normally. So the next step is to open the protolinker-macos-latest.dmg file and drag it into the Applications folder shortcut shown in the folder, this will install the protolinker and from now on you can run it from your terminal or from your Launchpad.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph \" style=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To install protolinker on your macOS device, you need to first go to the downloads page and download the DMG file to install it. When you download protolinker from the internet, macOS may mark the file with the quarantine attribute flag. This is a standard security measure applied to all apps that are not downloaded &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[13],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-541","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-howtoinstall"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":167,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"beraldoigor","author_nicename":"beraldoigor","author_url":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/author\/beraldoigor\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"How to install","term_url":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/docs-category\/howtoinstall\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/protolinker.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}