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Setting up a Rucio Developer environment on Mac with Apple Silicon

Setting up a Rucio Developer environment on Mac with Apple Silicon​

Currently Rucio packages and containers are only available for the x86_64 architecture.

A Mac equipped with Apple Silicon can execute code compiled for the x86_64 instruction set via a translation mechanism known as Rosetta 2.

  • To install Rosetta 2 run:

    /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta

This will initiate the Rosetta installer, and you will need to consent to a license agreement.

Make sure that Docker Desktop is installed and updated.

Docker environment​

In order to force Docker to run commands with platform linux/amd64 instead of linux/arm64 by default on macOS Apple Silicon, you have two options:

Set Docker default platform to linux/amd64:

export DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64

Or run it as part of the command a single time:

DOCKER_DEFAULT_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 docker-compose -f <docker-compose-file.yml>