Installation failure in MacOs

[lazarusA]

I'm running Julia 1.5.1 where I do have GMT.jl installed, but when I called it it says...

> using GMT
> You don't seem to have GMT installed and I don't currently install it automatically,
> so you will have to do it yourself. Please follow instructions bellow.
> https://github.com/GenericMappingTools/gmt/blob/master/INSTALL.md

But, I do have GMT installed in the following location:

/Applications/GMT-6.1.1.app/Contents/MacOS/GMT-6.1.1

what should I do to get it properly working? Thanks.

[joa-quim]

Did you install the GMT bundle? If yes, I'm sorry but it won't work. Not for the reason you encountered but because MacOS manages to screw a lot of paths to dependencies and you'd find dependency conflicts (zlib for example). The solution is to build GMT using Homebrew (the GMT page has instructions for that).

But still about the error you found, the issue is that GMT is not in your path, so when GMT.jl tries to run this

julia> run(`gmt --version`)

it doesn't find it.

[lazarusA]

Oh, I see. Ok. Doing the following steps works just fine.
First

$ brew install gmt
$ brew install ghostscript graphicsmagick ffmpeg

and then in the julia repl

> ] add GMT
> using GMT

is ok.