Installing python on MacBook Air failed

[barry-scott]

This is a issue that some mac users are seeing, but not all.

This thread has the discussion so far about this problem:

Is there a recent Mac install issue?

In the last few days, three people have mailed webmaster@python.org (which is explicitly not a “support channel”, but whatever…) saying they can’t install on a Mac. Nobody’s provided details - all three sent a screenshot of the utterly useless Mac installer screen that says “The installer encountered an error”, with no details at all. Not able to tell if this is unique to the new batch of releases that just dropped, because, again, no details; however the timing seems curious. I don’t see any…

It seems that this works for a lot of people:

@siliceo

PROCEDURE (use at your own risk)

An alternative way to using the macOS GUI Installer, issue the following command using Terminal

• Open Terminal
• Change your working directory to the location of the Python pkg file
  (e.g., cd $HOME/downloads)
• Issue a command similar to
  sudo installer -verbose -pkg ./python-3.11.2-macos11.pkg -target /
  NOTE: replace python-3.11.2-macos11.pkg with the file you downloaded