LocalAI v2.29.0 installer script(install.sh) not working for Mac OS(Darwin)

[ezeke-il]

LocalAI version:

LocalAI v2.29.0

Environment, CPU architecture, OS, and Version:

Darwin Byleths-Win11.local 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan 2 20:23:36 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 arm64

Describe the bug

Failure to install LocalAI using the install script even with sudo privileges enabled.
I am being shown this error install: /usr/local/bin/local-ai: Permission denied

To Reproduce

Ran the command curl https://localai.io/install.sh | sh

Expected behavior

Well I expected it to be installed ig? but it didn't. I have attached the screenshots for reference too.

Btw while going through the install.sh file in subl it was intended to go for this pathway right?

but it still didn't.

Hope it was of any help in pin pointing the error. If needed please message or comment me here.
Thanks and have a nice day.

[ezeke-il]

Okay so, I did some tinkering and it is working? atleast that's what i hope.
So, changing the prior install darwin one

install_binary_darwin() {
    [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ] || fatal 'This script is intended to run on macOS only.'

    info "Downloading LocalAI ${LOCALAI_VERSION}..."
    curl --fail --show-error --location --progress-bar -o $TEMP_DIR/local-ai "https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/download/${LOCALAI_VERSION}/local-ai-Darwin-${ARCH}"

    info "Installing to /usr/local/bin/local-ai"
    install -o0 -g0 -m755 $TEMP_DIR/local-ai /usr/local/bin/local-ai

    install_success
}

to this one where i tried complying with macOS System Integrity Protection (SIP) as it even blocks writing to system directories like /usr/share even with sudo

install_binary_darwin() {
    [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ] || fatal 'This script is intended to run on macOS only.'

    info "Downloading LocalAI ${LOCALAI_VERSION}..."
    curl --fail --show-error --location --progress-bar -o $TEMP_DIR/local-ai "https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI/releases/download/${LOCALAI_VERSION}/local-ai-Darwin-${ARCH}"
    
    # Create target directory if it doesn't exist
    if [ ! -d "/usr/local/bin" ]; then
        info "Creating /usr/local/bin directory..."
        sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
    fi
    
    # Checking and trying to fix permissions on /usr/local/bin if needed
    if [ ! -w "/usr/local/bin" ]; then
        info "Fixing permissions on /usr/local/bin..."
        sudo chown $(whoami):admin /usr/local/bin
    fi

    info "Installing to /usr/local/bin/local-ai"
    # Using sudo even if case permissions weren't fully fixed
    sudo install -m755 $TEMP_DIR/local-ai /usr/local/bin/local-ai
    
    # Using a user-accessible location for models directory
    MODELS_PATH="$HOME/.local-ai/models"
    info "Creating models directory at $MODELS_PATH..."
    mkdir -p "$MODELS_PATH"
    
    # Creating a config file
    CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/.config/local-ai"
    mkdir -p "$CONFIG_DIR"
    cat > "$CONFIG_DIR/config.yaml" <<EOF
models_path: $MODELS_PATH
address: 0.0.0.0:8080
EOF

    info "LocalAI configuration created at $CONFIG_DIR/config.yaml"
    info "Models will be stored in $MODELS_PATH"
    
    install_success
}

so in short, I did 2 changes in it:

1. Models Directory Location
2. Added Configuration Setup(as without this, LocalAI would try to use the default location which isn't accessible)

TLDR: The functionality remains exactly the same as the standard LocalAI installation. The only difference is where the models are stored.

when using use the normal cmd

local-ai --config $HOME/.config/local-ai/config.yaml

would be glad to know if there's any issues.

[ImLunaHey]

only way i could get it to work was sudo su and then running the command.