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Elvermg
Elvermg

Reputation: 447

Error installing Visual Studio for mac

I have a MacBook Air with macOS Sierra 10.12.5. I'm getting the following error trying to install Visual Studio for Mac:

Initial task interrupted by exception Access to the path "/Users/username/.config/xbuild" is denied. Exception type: System.UnauthorizedAccessException Message: Access to the path "/Users/username/.config/xbuild" is denied. at Xamarin.Web.Installer.TasksManager.DetectComponents () [0x000a1] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/4852/1d420fd9/source/installer/Xamarin.Web.Installer/TasksManager.cs:306

Thanks for your help.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2377

Answers (2)

nftw
nftw

Reputation: 624

Building on @Elvermg's comment with more details:

I ran:

$ ls -la ~ | grep .config

drwxr-xr-x    5 root  staff         170 22 Jun 15:08 .config

This confirmed the same issue.

I changed the owner of the ~/.config directory:

sudo chown [username]:staff ~/.config/

Problem solved.

Upvotes: 7

Derek Lawrence
Derek Lawrence

Reputation: 1608

Can you try installing this version.

https://dl.xamarin.com/VsMac/VisualStudioForMac-Preview1-7.0.0.347.dmg

Seems the store version might have issues on your version of mac.

Upvotes: 1

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