Install Pelican on macOS

This document explains how to install Pelican on macOS.

Navigate to Pelican download page and select the Pelican macOS binary you want to install.
In Operating System section, select macOS. In Architectures section, select X84_64 (Intel) or ARM64 (ARM) depending on the architecture of your machine.
In the list of candidates, copy the link to pelican_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz if you select ARM64 (ARM), or pelican_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz if you select X84_64 (Intel).
Change the following command with the link to the binary you copied in the previous step and run the command
```
wget <replace-with-the-link-you-copied>
tar -zxvf pelican_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz // ARM user
```
Note that you need to replace pelican_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz with pelican_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz if you are running an Intel machine.

Example to install Pelican binary for an Intel machine:
```
curl -O https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/releases/download/v7.5.8/pelican_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf pelican_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
```
At this step, you don't actually install Pelican, you just extract the binary. It is recommended that you add Pelican binary to your PATH environment variable to allow Pelican to be called from your command line.

Verify Pelican is installed

Refer to the previous section on how to verify that Pelican is successfully installed.

If you want to use Pelican client to download or upload files, refer to Client Usage to get started. If you want to serve a Pelican server, refer to Serve a Pelican Origin and Serve a Pelican Federation.