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KiCad 5.1.12 running on MacOS 11.6 (Big Sur)
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KiCad MacOS Install fix.md

Johnny KiCad install adventures

MacOS Big Sur caused siginficate headaches for users looking to install KiCad in the 'traditional' .dmg way

I thought I would outline the (re-createable) steps required to work around these

For starters, this tutorial assuems that you have complete removed previous KiCad install files, and that you have successfully copied/extracted the .dmg. I.e., the following directory structure exists on disk: This is an image cute-octopus-pack

➜  kicad.app mv Contents _Contents_hack
➜  kicad.app ln -s ./_Contents_hack ./Contents
➜  kicad.app cd Contents
➜  Contents ln -s ../_Contents_hack ./Contents
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