OpenSSL installation with brew install openssl - additional notes

[kensoh]

macOS has removed OpenSSL a few releases back, a dependency of TagUI. TagUI for Python will automatically try to do the installation during initial use, but if that is not possible, it will advise users to run the following commands to install -

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
brew install openssl

However, macOS has introduced System Integrity Protection (SIP) which may block installation of brew (the package manager tool for installing software on macOS).

Raising this issue, so that users who encountered problems manually installing, can use the solution below by temporarily disabling SIPS.

[kensoh]

I'll expect the auto-setup to work in most cases, and for some laptops, users have to do the brew install openssl manually. And for this group of users, a subset may need to use the following workaround to deal with the SIP of macOS which blocks software writing to system folders.

If you experience this manual workaround to disable SIP, please drop a note here so that I can be aware how prevalent this is, and see what can be done to optimise the documentation and auto-setup messages for better ease of use by users. Thanks!

Adding on a short article which users can also refer to if they encounter the issue -
https://www.imore.com/how-turn-system-integrity-protection-macos

And a longer article with the technical background and screenshots of the steps -
https://www.macworld.com/article/2986118/how-to-modify-system-integrity-protection-in-el-capitan.html

[kensoh]

More details of this OpenSSL thing at the original TagUI project - aisingapore/TagUI#86