STM32CubeMX Mac updater does not work

[Till Rachow]

Hi,

whenever I try to run the CubeMX updater on MacOS, using sudo, the update will fail with:

" Updater cannot write on Software Folder. It's probably due to a bad Acces Privilege."

I tried to give everyone, admin and me the right to read and write the folder and the app itself. No success!

Anybody knows how to make it work?

Thanks

[ALiss]

Hey guys, I had the same problem but just now solved it. If anyone is still wondering how to solve this issue I did it the following way:

• Find the STM32CubeMX file in your /Applications folder
• Right-click -> "Show package contents"
• Locate STM32CubeMX in Contents/Resources/
• Open terminal and use "sudo USER/Applications/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeMX.app/Contents/Resources/STM32CubeMX"
  • tip: You can write "sudo " then drag n' drop the STM32CubeMX-file in package contents.
• Go download the update in "Check for updates" in the cubeMX app. The program will tell you to restart.
• Exit the program and start the program again as instructed above. Now it should be updating.

[JTera.1]

ALiss, thank you, This method worked for me. Cube 5.40 to 5.50 on macOS 10.15.3 Catalina.

[Clark Sann]

I'm having this same problem now trying to update to 6.1.2 and from there to 6.2.0. I'm running Big Sur V 11.2.3.

I had this problem on one of my two Macs. On that Mac I had to use the sudo technique @ALiss​  mentioned above. THANK YOU, ALiss!

The other Mac installed normally without me having to invoke sudo.

[JPate.1950]

Agree this works but really. MacOS support for CubeMX has been dreadful - having to extract the jar from previous versions, this installer is pretty shabby. It really grinds my gears when an alert has multiple spelling mistakes - this looks like some dodgy script kiddies work on Piratebay…