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title = "MacOS"
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## Install on MacOS

Deployment of packages for MacOS is made increasingly difficult
by signing and notarizing requirements from Apple Inc.
We have no capacity to go through these processes,
nor are we willing to pay for such highway robbery.

Therefore users need to compile from source on their target machines.

As a prerequisite, Python must be installed, see [Python on Mac](/deploy/py/mac).

Then compilation can be done in two ways:
- automatically, using a Homebrew recipee from our tap https://jugit.fz-juelich.de/mlz/homebrew
- manually, giving the user full control: see [build from source](/deploy/build/unix/).
