Can't install on OS X El Capitan 10.11

[beeatriz]

Problem

On install, Prey throws the following line on OSX El Capitan 10.11

Humax-Living-Room:~ stewartdunn$ /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey config gui -f

-bash: /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey: No such file or directory

Humax-Living-Room:~ stewartdunn$

How it was detected.

User feedback.

References

https://secure.helpscout.net/conversation/104576542/25324/

[mauricioschneider]

This is because Prey is not installed. The issue must be a different one.

[mauricioschneider]

According to one of our users, the problem is related to a change in permissions in El Capitan. It appears that applications are unable to being installed under /usr/lib, which is the case of Prey. Instead, they should be installed under /usr/local/lib. I will have to look further into the issue.

[crockpotveggies]

+1

[lookfirst]

Yup, my console log is being filled up with error messages:

9/18/15 12:42:51.594 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.prey.agent[68228]) Service could not initialize: Unable to set current working directory. error = 2: No such file or directory, path = /usr/lib/prey/current: 15A282a: xpcproxy + 12028 [1353][19011403-4854-3CCD-9FCF-49C36302EB40]: 0x2
9/18/15 12:42:51.594 AM com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]: (com.prey.agent) Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

[lookfirst]

Screenshot of install failure with 1.4.1: http://take.ms/1LcaW

[stewacide]

This is because of the new rootless / system integrity model. Look in /Library/SystemMigration/History/ and you'll find where Prey was moved on installing El Capitan: seems it hasn't been working for me for about a month, since I installed the public beta. Good thing my Macbook wasn't stolen in that time!!!

Hopefully the developers find a work around.

[wachunei]

I don't know if this is related at all but MacTeX distribution had to [https://tug.org/mactex/UpdatingForElCapitan.pdf](release a guide) to link correctly the binaries used in software to the right paths in El Capitan. Could this be a way to workaround this by specifying binaries in a different location?

[mauricioschneider]

The fix to this issue will be included in the release 1.4.2, which is about to be published.

[asadowski]

So is prey in /usr/local/lib now?

[mauricioschneider]

Yes, it is.
On Oct 3, 2015 10:47 PM, "asadowski" [email protected] wrote:

So is prey in /usr/local/lib now?

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[escapone]

it is impossible to install EL CAPITAN mac on prey, it sais outdated config file all time. Anyone a solution?