<p>You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.</p>

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2019-11-05T09:52:05.133Z
2019-11-05T09:52:05.133Z
Devon Ryan
<p>I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

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2019-11-04T22:11:26.890Z
Did you upgrade to Catalina (a bad thing due to no support for any 32bit at all)?
Matteo Ferla
<fastq><sratoolkit>
SRA Toolkit execution problem
# SRA Toolkit execution problem

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-04)

I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png)

**Tags:** fastq, sratoolkit
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Did you upgrade to Catalina (a bad thing due to no support for any 32bit at all)?  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-05. Score: 1

You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.


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