Answers.Body: <p>You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? <a href="https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
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Comments.Text: Did you upgrade to Catalina (a bad thing due to no support for any 32bit at all)?
Comments.UserDisplayName: Matteo Ferla
Tags: <fastq><sratoolkit>
Title: SRA Toolkit execution problem
ThreadText: # SRA Toolkit execution problem
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-11-04)
  
  I am trying to install SRA Toolkit on MacOS, following all the instructions from NCBI website. It is installed but fastq-dump cannot be executed because "cannot execute binary files". I tried "chmod +x", noah from home-brew to make binary executable on MacOS but fast-dump still cannot be executed. I attached the screenshot of my terminal window. Can anyone help? [![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/kfpqq.png)
  
  **Tags:** fastq, sratoolkit
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Did you upgrade to Catalina (a bad thing due to no support for any 32bit at all)?  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2019-11-05. Score: 1
  
  You can't run Linux binaries on OSX (or vice versa). Download Mac OSX binaries.
  
  
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