Mac OS: System-wide PATHs for GUI apps

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Ralph-Uwe Börner

Published

November 9, 2023

Set system-wide PATH for Mac OS GUI applications

Problem: GUI applications often don’t find an app when its directory is already in the PATH environnment variable.

In my case, I was unable to start jupyter from inside Quarto.

For recent Mac OS releases, the solution to the problem is easy:

Edit /etc/paths and add the needed paths. Restart your Finder. That’s it.