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Trouble Using the Flywheel CLI after Upgrading to MacOS 10.15 Catalina

Introduction

If you recently upgraded your macOS to the 10.15 Catalina release, you may get a security warnings that says "fw" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. For example:

macOS warning dialog stating fw cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

We are working on being an identified developer with Apple, but until then, follow Apple's guidelines and add the Flywheel CLI as a exception to your computer's security settings.

Instruction Steps

Add Flywheel CLI as an Exception

  1. Download the latest version of the Flywheel CLI from your Flywheel profile page.

  2. Open Finder, and double click on darwin_amd64.zip.

  3. Right-click on fw, and click Open.

    Finder right-click menu for the fw file, with the Open option highlighted

  4. Click *Open* on the warning prompt.

    Warning dialog confirming whether to open the fw Unix app downloaded from the internet

  5. A new terminal window opens, and the Flywheel CLI displays the following output:

    Terminal window showing the fw CLI command list and logout session output

  6. In Terminal, navigate to ~/Downloads/darwin_amd64/.

  7. Enter ./fw version to verify the new Flywheel CLI version.

    Terminal showing fw version output confirming the installed flywheel-cli version

  8. (Optional) If you previously added fw to your PATH variable, you will need to add the updated fw version to your PATH. To do this, enter the following command:

    sudo mv ./fw /usr/local/bin