Installing CKAN on macOS

Installing manually

1. Download CKAN.dmg from https://github.com/KSP-CKAN/CKAN/releases/latest
2. Open it
3. Drag CKAN.app to your desktop (or any other folder you prefer)
4. Double click it
5. If a permission request similar to "bash" wants access to control "Terminal" pops up, press "OK"

CKAN's Console UI opens in a terminal instead of the GUI because macOS dropped support for 32-bit applications with version 10.15, and Mono's WinForms implementation is 32-bit only. For more information, check this PR and this issue.

Installing via Homebrew

Sonoma has some reported instabilities, and Sequoia works just fine; this also reportedly worked as far back as Mojave:

$ brew update
$ brew install mono
$ brew install ckan
$ ckan consoleui

Installed versions are:

ckan 1.34.4
mono 6.12.0

Using Console UI

See the user guide for help with using the Terminal-based UI.