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How to delete things from /usr/bin
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# In macOS Catalina onwards `/usr/bin` is protected. Before you would only need to run a root shell to make any changes. Now there is something extra to do.
# Let's say I want to run this command:
# sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/python3
# Deleting something will give you the error:
# rm: /usr/bin/python3: Read-only file system
# To get around this you need to first run:
sudo mount -uw /
# Then the above command will work as expected.
sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/python3
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