How to access the darktable and darktable-cli executables on macOS?

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Hi!

I’ve just installed the most recent version of darktable (5.0.0) with the command “brew install --cask darktable”, and I can launch the app by double-clicking on the icon in the Applications folder of Finder. However, I see from section 12.5 of the current documentation (https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/en/darktable_user_manual.pdf) that it can also be called from the command line with specific options, and that there is also a separate “darktable-cli” executable. Yet, if I call or search for those executables from a Terminal I don’t see any of those:

MicMac3 ~ % darktable
zsh: command not found: darktable
MicMac3 ~ % which darktable
darktable not found
MicMac3 ~ % whereis darktable
darktable:
MicMac3 ~ % whereis darktable.app
darktable.app:
MicMac3 ~ % darktable-cli
zsh: command not found: darktable-cli
MicMac3 ~ %

What should I do to access those executables from a Terminal?

Thanks for clarifying this point.

2

On macOS, the executables are not added to your path, that’s why you can’t call them from any directory. If you cd into the darktable app, I believe the executables are in bin.

3

I’m still on 4.8, but I expect it’s the same on 5.0.

/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable is the main executable.

All of the rest of the executables are in the /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/ directory.

4

Thanks a lot to both @paperdigits and @Bordwall: I did find those executables in “/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/”. I’m still puzzled about why the shell functions “whereis” and “which” were not able to find those locations, though I suspect this may be more a macOS than a darktable issue. Thanks again for your support.

5

Because they’re not on your $PATH.

Yes.

6

Great! Thanks again.